Essay 5 sections
The Production Cost of "Just-in-Case" Code
Applying YAGNI in practice: the price of adding flexibility you don't need today, repaid daily in maintenance, readability, and bug surface
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29 entries: Note, System, Essay.
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- System 10 sections
Race Conditions and Gaps in Sequential Numbering
Generating legally sequential, gap-free numbers with parallel workers: the JIT reservation pattern that solves race conditions and gaps together
- Essay 5 sections
When I Move to Microservices
The measured signals that justify moving from a monolith to a distributed architecture — and the common false reasons that say it's still too early
- Essay 5 sections
Why I Start Projects With a Modular Monolith
The case for drawing clean module boundaries inside a single deployable app before jumping to microservices — and when I stop doing it.
- System 9 sections
Scale Breaking Points in Data-Intensive Systems
As data load grows, where does boring architecture break? Working set, read replicas, partitioning, write load, a separate data layer — in order.
- Essay 7 sections
Why I Prefer Boring Architecture
The pragmatic case for choosing proven tools over chasing new technology. This is not cowardice, it is a budget decision.
- Note 5 sections
Namespace Isolation for a Shared Redis
The pattern I use to avoid key collisions and accidental deletes when a single Redis instance is shared across several projects
- System 11 sections
Multiple Projects on a Single VPS
One VPS, several independent apps. Deliberate minimalism over Kubernetes: user isolation, separate PHP-FPM pools, shared PostgreSQL/Redis, a plain deploy.
- System 13 sections
Laravel Production Stack: Why Each Piece Is There
A production-grade Laravel setup with Nginx + PHP-FPM + Redis + PostgreSQL + Supervisor + Horizon. Each piece's job and what you lose if you drop it