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.

• Stop fighting August 09, 2021

  When your vision for technical change keeps hitting walls, consider whether continuing the fight serves you better than finding a workplace that shares your values.

• Being on-call March 29, 2021

  A guide to why developers should own their production code, what to expect, and how to excel at incident response.

• Standups January 13, 2021

  Transform your standups: Stop status reporting, start collaborating. Make meetings matter through meaningful team interactions and written updates.