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.

• Trust signals are broken February 04, 2026

  AI makes code cheap to produce and expensive to trust. When polish no longer implies understanding, verification becomes the only reliable signal.

• Year in books January 31, 2026

  I read a lot this year. Honestly, it was my best year for reading so far with 31 books in total. The big shift for me was actually diving into fiction, which isn't something I usually do.

• Trust is everything October 31, 2025

  Trust holds everything together. It's the invisible foundation of every relationship, team, and system we depend on... but it's fragile.