Every senior engineer I respect ships less code than the juniors around them. Two principles explain why — YAGNI and KISS. Here's what they actually mean, when you're violating them, and how to apply them.

We all know the ELK stack. But how does a log line printed inside a Kubernetes pod actually travel to Elasticsearch? Here's the full journey — stdout to docker logs to fluentd to Elasticsearch.

A harmless race condition met a well-meaning retry policy and became an 8-second latency spike. Here's how I traced it, and the one-line fix.

A practical guide to the DevOps concepts every software engineer—yes, even frontend engineers—needs to understand.

How mishandling Node.js streams can cause memory buffer leaks, stale data exposure, and how to fix them.

A breakdown of how I migrated from Heroku to a more cost-effective stack using Supabase, Railway while maintaining performance for calcont.in.

A reflection on my 1.5-year journey at Media.net—challenges, growth, and unforgettable experiences.

Insights and lessons from my first year as a full-time software engineer.