Writing
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2026
- Designing a quiet blogDesign
Why this site looks the way it does, and the handful of rules that keep it from getting louder over time.
- Notes on shipping smallEngineering
The smaller the change, the faster it ships and the easier it is to undo. A few habits that make small changes the default.
- A weekend in the mountainsLife
Two days with no signal, a paper map, and the discovery that boredom is a skill I had lost.
- My desk setup, 2026 editionGear
A yearly inventory of what is on the desk, what changed since last year, and what I would buy again.
2025
- Learning to write againNotes
I stopped writing for years without noticing. Getting back into it meant lowering the bar until it was almost on the floor.
- Markdown syntax guideNotes
Every kind of content this blog can render, on one page. Handy for checking styles and as a reminder of what is supported.
2021
- Consuming over 1 billion Kafka messages per day at IfoodEngineering
How the User Profile team at Ifood replaced a fragile data pipeline with a Kafka consumer in Go that saves well over a billion feature updates a day to DynamoDB.
2020
- Developing a microservice to handle over 30k requests per second at IfoodEngineering
How account-metadata, built in 2018 for 10k requests per minute, grew to serve 2 million per minute with DynamoDB, DAX, SQS, daily load tests and a fallback in the API gateway.
2019
- You can’t win the war against the noiseNotes
Getting things done is less about new hacks, tools or morning routines and more about quieting the world around you and following your own goals.
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