Engineering Insights
Practical perspectives on software architecture, developer tooling, and engineering team dynamics—drawn from production environments and distilled into actionable guidance.
5 Common Microservices Pitfalls and How Teams Avoid Them
We analyzed 50+ production deployments to identify the most costly mistakes teams make when transitioning from monoliths. Here is what we found.
Mar 15, 2024
API Versioning Strategies That Scale With Your Platform
Your API is your contract with consumers. Learn versioning approaches used by platforms serving millions of requests without breaking client integrations.
Mar 8, 2024
The Code Review Checklist One Team Uses to Catch More Bugs
This checklist helped a 12-person engineering team reduce review time by 40% while catching critical issues earlier in the development cycle.
Feb 28, 2024
Database Optimization: A Practical Checklist for Engineering Teams
Real-world techniques that took a client's reporting system from 8-second queries to sub-100ms responses without infrastructure changes or major refactors.
Feb 15, 2024
Testing Strategies That Actually Scale With Engineering Teams
Moving beyond the test pyramid—discover the testing philosophy that works for teams of 5, 25, or 250 without slowing down feature delivery.
Jan 30, 2024
Cutting Cloud Costs by 60% Without Compromising Performance
A case study on how we helped a Series B startup reduce their AWS bill by $180K annually through strategic resource optimization and right-sizing.
Jan 18, 2024
Measuring Engineering Team Velocity Beyond Story Points
Story points have their place, but they are not the whole story. Here is the framework we use to understand real team performance and identify blockers.
Jan 5, 2024
Developer Onboarding: Reducing Time-to-Productivity for New Hires
How one engineering organization cut average onboarding from 12 weeks to 6 weeks by rethinking documentation, pairing, and project assignment structures.
Dec 20, 2023