Notes from running engineering at scale
On platform modernization, organizational design, AI as infrastructure, and the practices that make results hold.
Ask Five Engineers What They Least Want to Touch
The most honest survey of a system's condition costs five conversations. Where the answers overlap is where your architecture diagram stops telling the truth.
AI Did Not Make Us Faster. It Moved the Bottleneck.
Assisted code generation removed the cheapest part of engineering. What is left — review, verification, and understanding — was already the expensive part.
Micro Frontends Only Earn Their Keep at a Certain Size
Micro frontends solve an organizational problem, not a technical one. Below a certain team count they are pure overhead — the threshold is higher than assumed.
Tools I've open-sourced
Small, focused libraries from real platform work — free to use, MIT licensed.