The Complete Guide to Background Jobs and Task Queues
Why background jobs are easy to start and hard to run reliably — delivery guarantees, idempotency, the transactional outbox, and a practical BullMQ implementation.
Writing on software, leadership, and the future with AI.
Exploring how we design systems, grow teams, and navigate the new frontier where people and AI build together.
The AI Stack Explained: A Practical Guide to the Models, Platforms, and Tools Powering the AI Revolution
A practical guide to the layers of today's AI stack — from foundation models and infrastructure to protocols, agent frameworks, developer tools, retrieval, security, and vertical applications.
When Low-Code Quietly Becomes Your Backend
How fast-growing startups accidentally turn workflows into systems of record — and how to fix it without a rewrite.
Pub/Sub, From First Principles: Part 4 — Production Resilience and Guarantees
Delivery guarantees, idempotency, dead-letter queues, and backpressure — what separates a demo from production pub/sub.
Pub/Sub, From First Principles: Part 3 — Message Routing with Topics
Add topic-based routing so subscribers only receive the events they care about.
Pub/Sub, From First Principles: Part 2 — Asynchronous Workers
Fix blocking publish and failure isolation with per-subscriber queues and async workers.
Pub/Sub, From First Principles: Part 1 — Foundations
Build pub/sub from scratch — publishers, subscribers, and the decoupling that makes event-driven architecture work.
Crafting a design system for a multiplanetary future
Most companies try to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to visual design, but for Planetaria we needed to create a brand that would still inspire us 100 years from now when humanity has spread across our entire solar system.