Long-form, multi-part write-ups — each one builds a real system end to end, brick by brick. New here? Pick a series and start at part one; every part links back to the beginning.
Software Engineering Series
How Microservices Are Really Built
A warehouse system, from a whiteboard conversation to production.
Most tutorials start with docker compose up. This one starts with a conversation about the business — then earns its way to the infrastructure, one decision (and one paid-for trade-off) at a time.
5 parts
- How Microservices Are Really Built: A Series
- Event Storming: Modeling a Domain on a Wall Before You Write Code
- Why We Start With the Domain, Not With Docker
- Five Bounded Contexts, Three Services: A Tour of a Warehouse Domain
- Aggregate: Where You Draw the Lines (and What It Costs to Draw Them Wrong)
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Building Forge: From Ticket to Production
Forge — an agentic SDLC that doesn't stop at the PR.
Design before code, measurement before claims. Every decision carries its trade-off, and from post #7 on every entry ships a number — even when that number disproves the design.
2 parts
- Opening the Forge Series: Design Before Code, Measurement Before Claims
- From PR to Production: Why We’re Building Forge
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Writing Agents That Work
A field guide from skills to systems.
Skills, subagents and feedback loops — with every claim tagged by its source strength, so you can tell peer-reviewed evidence from a vendor’s own benchmark.
1 part
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