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.
9 articles by Wei-Chen Liao.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
