Engineering notes

Practical ideas about software that has to keep changing.

Short essays on backend engineering, architecture, modernization, production behavior, and the tradeoffs behind technical decisions.

Backward Compatibility Is a Product Feature

Why preserving valid contracts can be one of the most important decisions in a legacy modernization project.

Why health checks, configuration, CI/CD, dependencies, and failure modes should be designed alongside the application itself.

A practical way to think about modularity, coupling, and choosing structure based on change rather than fashion.