Software Development
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Snapshot Isolation and Write Skew: The Anomaly Your Database Default Allows
Most teams never touch the isolation level. The database picks one, the tests pass, and everyone moves on. Then, months…
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Linearizability vs Serializability: The Distinction Most Engineers Conflate
Two words, one letter apart in spirit, and yet they describe different promises. Teams often use them as synonyms in…
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What Machine Learning Is and How to Build a Model
Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence that enables software to identify patterns in data and use them to…
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AI SDLC Explained: A Practical Guide to Building Agent Skills
The AI software development lifecycle (AI SDLC) extends familiar software engineering practices to systems that use models and agents. Alongside…
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Zero-Downtime Migrations: The Expand and Contract Pattern with Flyway or Liquibase
Picture a normal Tuesday deploy. Your new service version starts, your old one is still serving traffic, and a migration…
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Understanding OpenTelemetry: How It Works End to End
OpenTelemetry (OTel) is a vendor-neutral, open-source standard for collecting traces, metrics, and logs from an application — collectively called telemetry.…
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The Outbox Pattern and Change Data Capture: Solving the Dual-Write Problem with Debezium
Saving an order and announcing it to the rest of your system sounds like one job. In reality, it is…
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The Economics of Flaky Tests: What They Really Cost a Team
A flaky test rarely breaks production. Instead, it quietly taxes every pull request your team opens. The Hidden Tax Every…
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What is an Agent Harness? Understanding the Architecture Behind AI Agents
Agentic AI systems are moving beyond simple question-and-answer applications. AI agents can reason about tasks, use external tools, inspect files,…
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