Notes on software architecture, backend systems, infrastructure, search, and lessons from building.
Topics: ai-assisted-development · tdd · workflow
The interview-first, test-first workflow I used to build a full-stack car dealership inventory system with AI coding agents: how it works step by step, what it changed about my job as a developer, and the bugs it caught that I would have shipped.
Topics: Flutter · Offline-first · SQLite
A code-led walkthrough of how Kidney Care uses Drift and SQLite as its local source of truth, then reconciles dirty rows with Supabase through a registry- driven sync engine.
Topics: Python · Search · Inverted index
This article guides you through building a modular NLP search pipeline by first designing a clean architecture with distinct layers for ingestion, normalization, and tokenization, then connecting them to assign document IDs, build an inverted index, and support basic keyword searches.
Topics: Architecture · Microservices · Scaling
A simple yet deep breakdown of monolithic vs microservices architecture, why scaling changes everything, and how companies like Netflix turned system design into a competitive advantage.