A key challenge in scaling software is avoiding unnecessary friction with your tech stack. As systems grow more complex and teams expand, engineers naturally question their architectural choices. While this questioning helps improve systems for the long term, it becomes problematic when their maintenance and evolution consume so much time that they prevent you from focusing on actual business needs.

After almost 15 years of bitcoin, rather than taking over central banks, crypto seems to be filling different gaps in economies around the world. In the developed world, end user adoption is low, but institutional adoption is on the rise.

A reflection on moving back from staff to senior engineer. How it affected me personally and what impact it had on my career.

A simple guide on how to build an integration testing setup for rocket microservices using the sqlx crate to leverage clean databases for each individual test

A simple guide on how to setup sql database migrations in rust using the rocket web framework and the sqlx toolkit crates

What are the main takeaways of error handling with result objects and how does it compare to the try-catch idiom? Looking into different approaches and some examples.

Building a lightweight, general purpose and easy to use rules engine under 30 lines of Typescript. We’ll start with an example use case and build the engine around it.

Brief analysis of the most popular decentralized social network projects. How they work, what are the biggest pros and cons, and what do they offer that differentiates them from industry giants.

A digest of 2022’s most impactful events in the crypto and web3 space, including hacks, fraud, bankrupcy, and the latest tech developments in Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Technology has disrupted the music industry several times in history, changing the way we consume it, how it’s distributed and even how it’s made. In this article we’ll reflect about the good, the bad, and the ugly facts around NFTs in the music industry