Journal

What Is Site Reliability Engineering? A Solo Dev's Take

SRE explained without the enterprise baggage: SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and a one-evening setup a solo builder can actually keep running.

What Is Platform Engineering? A Dev's Plain Answer

What is platform engineering, how it differs from DevOps, what a platform team ships, and when a small team should skip it entirely.

Monorepo vs Polyrepo: The Stack Choice That Sticks

Should you use a monorepo or polyrepo? It depends on whether services share code, who needs access, and your CI tolerance. Here's the practical framework.

What Are DORA Metrics? The Four Keys Every Dev Needs

DORA metrics tell you how well your team ships code. Four measurements covering speed, stability, and recovery time. Useful from solo builders to large engineering teams.

What Is Technical Debt and How It Kills Side Projects

Solo builders accumulate technical debt faster than teams. Here is what it is, why it happens, and how to manage it before it blocks your next feature.

AI Agent Examples That Are Worth Your Time in 2026

Real AI agent examples from solo devs and indie hackers: what they built, what stack they used, and where things broke. Concrete, not theoretical.

Incident Response Best Practices for Solo Dev Teams

A practical guide to incident response best practices for solo devs and indie teams: what to build, what to skip, and how to not get paged at 3 AM for nothing.

Cyclomatic Complexity: What to Build or Refactor Next

Your codebase's complexity scores tell you exactly where to start and what to fix before you build anything new.

AI Software Engineering in 2026: What Actually Changed

Which AI tools actually change your output in 2026, where AI-generated code breaks silently, and what the shift means for your day-to-day engineering workflow.

AI Pair Programming: What Actually Works for Solo Devs

AI pair programming in 2026 means choosing between autocomplete, context-aware editors, and agentic tools. Here's the workflow that actually holds.

Build an AI Action Items Extractor: What It Actually Takes

What it really takes to build an AI action items extractor as a weekend project: the stack, the cost, and who'd actually pay for it.

Code Refactoring Techniques That Actually Ship Clean Code

The code refactoring techniques worth knowing: extract method, composing, branch-by-abstraction, and the signals that tell you when to use each one.