DevOps

Postgres as your message queue is a SPOF you'll regret at 3am

At 3 am the pager is activated. Your queue is backed up, your database is on fire, and those two facts are the same fact. This is the trap nobody wa…

Go 1.26 iterators turned the simplest language into functional spaghetti

The entire concept of Go was summarized in a single loop which is for . Currently, I'm reviewing a codebase in which somebody ranges over a function…

Platform teams became the new gatekeepers we said we hated

We killed the ops silo. Then we gave it a golden path and a nicer logo. The platform team was meant to solve our problems. Somehow it became the sam…

Go's static linking is a security tax nobody warned you about

Icinga had to release the same patch seven times. I mean not seven features. Seven releases of Icinga DB 1.5.1, just to keep chasing Go stdlib CVEs.…

100k lines of TypeScript to Rust with zero Rust experience. That's not engineering.

Someone ported 100k lines of TypeScript to Rust in a month using Claude. They had zero Rust experience. And honestly? I can't stop thinking about it…