Journal

What Journal is

Journal is where I capture observations, decisions, and takeaways at the intersection of systems, product, and engineering reality.
It’s not “industry news” and not a link dump. It’s closer to a working notebook — what helps you think clearer and build more reliably.

What I write about

Systems and architecture

How to make decisions when there’s no perfect option: boundaries, dependencies, trade-offs, resilience.

Performance and production discipline

Why “fast” isn’t about optimizing one place — it’s about measurement, latency budgets, and the right habits.

Product and engineering thinking

How to connect business goals to engineering decisions so outcomes are verifiable, not “vibes-based”.

Practice: patterns and anti-patterns

Short breakdowns of what worked, what didn’t, and why — without hero stories and without excuses.

AI as a system component

Where AI adds leverage, and where it introduces a new class of risk: quality, trust, observability, and boundaries of use.

How posts are structured

• Short notes — one point, one practical takeaway.
• Breakdowns — causality, trade-offs, solution examples.
• Checklists — what to verify, how to measure, how to fix.
• Postmortems (when appropriate) — what went wrong and what we changed in the system.

If there’s no takeaway you can apply, the text isn’t finished.

Who it’s for

• people building products who want fewer production surprises
• engineers making architecture decisions under constraints
• those tired of “opinions” and biased toward measurement
• those who value minimalism but won’t tolerate sloppiness

What to explore next

• Tech / Signals — engineering notes and playbooks: /signals/
• Systems / Foundry — how we design systems: /foundry/
• Work / Casework — projects and outcomes: /casework/

Go to the blog

Feed and topics: /blog/