Building a tiny static site generator in 200 lines of Go
Sometimes the right answer is not Hugo or Astro but a file you can read in one sitting. We walked through every line in a guild lunch and somehow shipped a new docs site by the end of the day.
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Feature flags are not a substitute for testing
Every team eventually discovers the joy of shipping behind a flag. Fewer teams discover the misery of cleaning up flags two years later when the original author has long since left the company. A short rant and a longer guide.
Notes on running Postgres on Kubernetes in 2026
Five years ago this would have been a controversial post. Today we have battle-tested operators, decent storage classes and a community that has finally agreed on backup tooling. Here is the stack we landed on for a fleet of around forty clusters.
Why we replaced our message queue (and what we learned)
After two years of running a custom message broker we finally pulled the plug and migrated everything to NATS JetStream. The migration took six weeks of careful planning, three weekends of late-night cutovers and one production incident that we are still apologising for.
Profiling Go services in production without breaking everything
Continuous profiling sounds great until you turn it on in a fleet of three hundred pods and your p99 latency doubles. Here is how we instrumented pprof endpoints behind a feature flag, sampled at one percent and shipped flame graphs straight to Grafana.