Journal · Tech stack decisions

What Is Trunk Based Development? A Solo Dev's Take

Trunk based development means merging small changes to one shared branch every day. Here is how it works, what your CI needs, and when a solo dev should switch.

What Is an SLO? A Practical Guide for Solo Developers

A plain-English answer to what an SLO is, how error budgets work, and how a solo dev can set a realistic reliability target in an afternoon.

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 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.

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.

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.