Upgrade Triggers: Mandatory, Locking, Opportunity
A Dependabot PR, an EOL notice and a CVE bulletin share one queue but not one urgency. Sort signals into three types and give each a response time.
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The Cost of Deferring an Upgrade
A PHP 7.1 → 8.2 upgrade was put off because "it works." The bill came later: a dependency lock, batched breaking changes, and bugs spread over months.
- Essay 4 sections
Signals That a System Has Grown Too Complex
The concrete red flags that reveal code or architecture has turned needlessly complex — and where to start simplifying
- 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
- 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 8 sections
Gitflow or GitHub Flow? How I Choose
Practical criteria for picking a branching strategy by product model, version count, and deploy rhythm — and how each model breaks in the wrong place.
- Essay 8 sections
When I Switch to Trunk-Based Development
Why release branches break for high-frequency deploy teams and how much of trunk-based is really discipline — the thresholds I cross and the ones I don't
- 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.
- 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.