When Rewrites Actually Succeed
When the big rewrite succeeds and when it sinks the company. The conditions that distinguish the rare wins from the many graveyards....
The Browser Is Your Best Security Sandbox
Modern browsers run untrusted code from millions of sources daily and contain threats successfully....
Microservices Were a Mistake for Most Companies
A monolith with good tests is better than 50 microservices with distributed debugging nightmares. When to use microservices: when you've proven you need them....
I Built a CMS at MSNBC Before Anyone Called Them CMSs
In 1996 at MSNBC, I built Workbench - a content management system for editors, copy editors, and photo teams before the term CMS existed....
Why Your Company Doesn't Need a Data Lake
Data lakes have become resume-driven development. 85% of projects fail, most turning into data swamps....
The 10 Architecture Decisions That Kill Startups
The architecture mistakes that kill startups: premature microservices, wrong database choices, god objects, missing observability, and more....
The Technical Due Diligence Checklist
A comprehensive checklist for evaluating startup technology: architecture, code quality, infrastructure, team, and security....
Small Language Models Will Eat Enterprise AI
Gartner predicts task-specific AI models will be used 3x more than general-purpose LLMs by 2027. Why latency, cost, and privacy push enterprises toward SLMs....
The Local-First Renaissance
Local-first software puts your data on your device first. The cloud becomes optional....
Every Dependency Is Technical Debt
Every dependency you add is a future liability. Why your package.json is technical debt waiting to compound....
When Microservices Make Sense
Microservices succeed when you have the right prerequisites: team scale, deployment independence, scaling needs, and operational maturity....
Serverless Done Right
Serverless done right is small, stateless, and boring. The pattern that survives traffic spikes without burning your AWS bill or your team....
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