How to ship safely with feature flags in 2026. The OpenFeature standard, picking a vendor, the patterns (boolean flags, percentage rollouts, targeting), and the costs of doing it wrong.
The resilience patterns every backend engineer should reach for: circuit breakers, bulkheads, backpressure, deadlines, jittered retries, and the production tradeoffs.
Event sourcing and CQRS without the religion. Where they earn their cost, why most apps don’t need them, and the pragmatic mid-paths.
Three API shapes you’ll see in 2026: resource-oriented (REST), action-oriented, and RPC. The strengths of each, when hybrids work, and the design choices that age well.
When to use REST vs GraphQL vs tRPC vs gRPC vs Connect in 2026. The tradeoffs each makes, where each shines, and a decision guide based on your client/server combination.
A practical look at Zig in 2026 — language fundamentals, why Bun chose it, how it compares to Rust and Go, the current ecosystem, and concrete cases where it earns the call.
Durable execution explained. Why Temporal became standard infrastructure in 2026, when to reach for it, and concrete patterns for AI agents, payment workflows, sagas, and any long-running process that must survive crashes.
DuckDB has become the embedded analytics engine of 2026. Why it replaces Pandas, where it fits next to Postgres / ClickHouse / Snowflake, the DuckLake extension, and concrete patterns for SaaS, notebooks, and edge analytics.
A practical 2026 guide to gRPC + Protocol Buffers in Go. Schema design, codegen with buf, server / client setup, streaming, interceptors for auth and tracing, and the production patterns that make gRPC services reliable.
A practical guide to authentication in 2026 — passkeys as the primary factor, OAuth 2.1 + OIDC for federation, sessions vs JWTs, the right stack for FastAPI / Django / Hono / Next.js, and the security mistakes I keep seeing.