SPOTLIGHT

    December 30, 2025

    A Webhook With No Retry Policy Is a Notification You Will Never Receive

    Webhooks are push notifications that depend on the receiver being available at the exact moment the event occurs, and a…
    December 24, 2025

    A Message Queue Is a Contract About Delivery, and the Contract Has Terms

    A message queue promises to deliver messages, but the promise has terms — at-least-once, at-most-once, ordering, and retries — and…
    December 19, 2025

    Background Work on Mobile Is a Privilege, Not a Right

    Mobile operating systems restrict background work aggressively to protect battery and performance, and an app that assumes it can run…
    December 9, 2025

    The State Management Library Is Not the Problem; the State Design Is

    Teams switch state management libraries hoping to fix their state problems, and the problems usually persist, because the issue is…
    December 7, 2025

    You Extracted Microservices Before You Understood the Boundaries

    Splitting a system into services makes boundaries expensive to change. Getting them wrong produces a distributed monolith that is harder…

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