Engineering analysis archive

Deep dives into software engineering, architecture, and production post-mortems.

How rotten codebases and diffuse ownership act as an unsupervised mentor, training developers to mimic anti-patterns and spreading technical debt.

The real trade-off in software delivery is not quality versus velocity, but the cost of improving structure now versus working with it later.

How brand-new systems quietly become difficult to maintain, and what senior engineers can do to change the trajectory.

A production post-mortem on the "N+1 problem" that crippled our ride-booking engine during rush hour.