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You’re Not Clumsy—You’re Just Mismanaging Your Error Budget
From dropped cups to software outages: rethink your margin for mistakes.
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Finn Christiansen
I have this new approach. But it only works in perfection…
Organizational change should be a dial—not a switch.
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Kafka Without the Complexity? That’s what Redpanda promises…
Can Redpanda finally make event streaming accessible to everyone?
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Optimizing throughput sounds smart—until it costs you real money.
How consumer habits sneak into business decisions—and hurt performance.
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Serverless Done Right: Why Hono Beats Express and Nest for Me
Why this lesser-known Node.js framework deserves your attention.
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From PostgreSQL to ElasticSearch: The Power of CQRS in Real Projects
Why separating reads and writes can lead to simpler, faster systems
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Finn Christiansen
How Ephemeral Environments Prevent Cloud Breakages
Why local testing isn’t enough in a serverless world
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Intuition vs. Reality: Understanding Cloud Cost Traps
A real-world example of why cloud pricing can be unintuitive
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Don’t Be a Hero: Why Safe Migrations Beat Smart Hacks
A real-world lesson in why confidence isn’t a strategy.
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Who Should Handle CORS: Your Backend or Your Infrastructure?
Why moving CORS handling to infrastructure helps in production — but hurts locally.
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Is It Really Urgent? Let Your Product Owner Decide!
Why developer priorities shouldn’t be set in private Slack messages.
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"You should have thought about that before"
How a simple API call turned into a days-long delay
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