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Notes from building and running systems — backend design, DevOps, applied AI, and the occasional book that changed how I work.
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The Postgres index that took 9 seconds off a query
A query that ran in 4ms locally took 9 seconds in production. The fix was one composite index — but the useful part is how to read the plan that tells you which one.
- Backend
- Software Engineering
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Why I started writing things down
Every engineer I admire keeps some kind of notebook. This is mine, made public — systems that had to hold up, infrastructure that stopped being scary, and books worth the hours.
- Software Engineering
