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Notes from production

What we've learned building and operating infrastructure software, written by the people who did the work.

Read Zero-downtime migrations: what actually breaks
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Zero-downtime migrations: what actually breaks

The failure modes that don't show up in a staging environment, and the checklist we run before every production cutover.

EngineeringCloud Migration
June 2, 20262 min readRead post
Read SOC 2 readiness is a systems problem, not a paperwork problem
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SOC 2 readiness is a systems problem, not a paperwork problem

Why the audit is the easy part, and the actual work happens months earlier in how access and logging are designed.

April 18, 20262 min read
Read The checkout rewrite nobody noticed
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The checkout rewrite nobody noticed

How we replaced a decade-old checkout monolith behind a feature flag, and why the best rewrite is the one your users never feel.

February 11, 20262 min read