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2026

Technical Debt/ 27 Sept 20263 min

Claude Opus 5 vs Claude Opus 5.5 vs ChatGPT Astra: Price, Benchmarks, and Latency

Claude Opus 5, Claude Opus 5.5, and ChatGPT Astra are three large language models that differ in price, benchmark performance, and latency. This article compares them using the latest publicly available vendor figures and third-party analyses, highlighting where the evidence is…

Technical Debt/ 26 Sept 20264 min

AI News

AI news is the practice of gathering, verifying, and disseminating information about developments in artificial intelligence. It provides developers with a regular stream of updates that reflect changes in models, APIs, and research findings.

Technical Debt/ 24 Sept 20266 min

Leadership

Leadership in engineering is the set of practices that align a group's work with its goals. It is a collection of patterns that guide decision making, feedback, and growth. I will outline the mechanisms that make leadership effective and why they matter.

2024

Architecture/ 01 Nov 2024

Building High-Performance Data Pipelines with Go.

A practical walkthrough of designing fault-tolerant, low-latency ETL pipelines using Go's concurrency model.

Performance/ 10 Oct 2024

PostgreSQL Query Optimization: Beyond EXPLAIN ANALYZE.

Advanced techniques for diagnosing and resolving performance bottlenecks in production Postgres.

Architecture/ 18 Sept 2024

Micro-Frontend Architecture: When to Split, When to Stay.

A pragmatic decision framework for teams considering micro-frontend decomposition.

Infrastructure/ 30 Aug 2024

Kubernetes Observability Stack from Scratch.

Standing up Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Tempo on a bare cluster without the cloud vendor lock-in.

Leadership/ 14 Jul 2024

The Engineering Leader's Guide to Technical Debt Triage.

A structured process for evaluating, prioritizing, and communicating debt paydown to stakeholders.

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