Writing

Notes from the maintenance years

Short pieces about architecture decisions, the ones that aged well and the ones that did not.

10 July 20265 min

What multi-cloud actually buys you

Running the same platform across AWS and GCP taught me multi-cloud is rarely about redundancy — it's about which primitives fit the job.

Architecture
Cloud

20 May 20265 min

Multi-tenant schemas are a people problem before they're a data problem

Designing schema isolation for a new enterprise product taught me the hard part isn't the foreign keys — it's getting every team to agree on what a tenant boundary means.

Databases
Architecture

15 February 20264 min

Adopting a new AI API without overcommitting to it

Integrating Google's Gemini API for text-to-image generation was a good reminder that a new model API deserves the same scrutiny as a new cloud service — not more, not less.

AI tooling
Practice