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.

• On the Edge of Competence July 28, 2025

  Understanding and maintaining your circle of competence is crucial for software engineers. This post explores how self-awareness, continuous learning, and avoiding overconfidence lead to sharper decisions and greater impact.

• Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck June 30, 2025

  LLMs make it easier to write code, but understanding, reviewing, and maintaining it still takes time, trust, and good judgment.

• Writing More Often June 26, 2025

  A few practical ways I’m trying to write more often, based on habit-building, lowered expectations, and doing something every day. A follow-up on why I want to write more (again).