Latency budgets work better than latency targets. Targets are aspirational. Budgets force you to delete features when yo…

Caches solve a problem and create three new ones: invalidation, observability, and the slow drift between what the cache…

I split a 4000-line file into 12 smaller ones this week. The smaller files weren't actually easier to understand. The 40…

Every time I revisit a project after six months, I find at least one place where past-me wrote a comment that present-me…

I write smaller commits than I used to. The commits are uglier in isolation and much easier to read in sequence.…