I used to add a layer of abstraction the first time I saw a pattern repeat. Now I wait for the third. The waiting is unc…

Latency budgets work better than latency targets. Targets are aspirational. Budgets force you to delete features when yo…

I keep a small log of decisions in a text file. Not architectural — just small ones. "Picked X over Y because Z." Future…

The team I learned the most from didn't have great tools. They had a great habit of reading each other's pull requests i…

I trust monorepos more in the second year than I did in the first. Most of the early friction goes away once the tooling…