Once in a while, I write longer articles that might be worth sharing on Hacker News. Mostly about distributed systems, and engineering challenges.

• My favorite papers August 17, 2021

  You'll find a curated list of great computer science papers that I've enjoyed reading and re-reading over the past years.

• Tales from running Kafka Streams in Production October 30, 2019

  After a full year of using Kafka Streams in Production on top of Kubernetes, I've documented the incidents we had over the year.

• Diving into Merkle Trees February 20, 2019

  Introduced in 1979 by Ralph C. Merkle, the Merkle Tree is a data structure used for efficiently summarizing and verifying the integrity of large sets of data.

You'll find mostly shorter posts that capture specific insights or experiences. Each one focuses on a single idea worth sharing.

• Surviving Long-Running Projects September 22, 2025

  Some projects run in silence for months. Status reports aren't enough. Real momentum comes from small wins, demos, and milestones that show your team is moving forward.

• When more threads make things worse September 10, 2025

  Optimistic locking retries under contention can cause livelocks: threads appear to work, but their efforts repeatedly block each other.

• More People ≠ Faster Delivery August 20, 2025

  Adding more developers rarely speeds up a project. Sequential work, dependencies, and coordination overhead set hard limits on how fast software can really be delivered.