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15 Aug 2025
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Shipping a Job Queue System Without Reading The Source Code

Before you dive into this — this isn't how I normally ship software, and I wouldn't recommend it for most projects. It worked here because Beanstalkd's interface is a small text protocol with well-defined behaviour, which makes it straightforward to test exhaustively. A web app
17 Mar 2026 5 min read

WTF? OLAP vs OLTP : TIL

Or - DuckDB is my favourite software of 2025 I really like SQLite. If you can fit your service on a single host, you should consider it for your database and for your cache. It's a very fast database. I recently discovered another embedded database - DuckDB. Where
05 Dec 2025 5 min read

Closing the Loop: AI Agents + Performance & Exception Monitoring

Let's start at the end of this journey, so that it sounds more reasonable. I built Splat, a lightweight Sentry clone, with inspiration from Glitchtip, to track exceptions and performance traces on Booko. I built it for me, because it'd be fun and useful. After building
21 Oct 2025 6 min read
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