Key takeaways from Amazon's 2007 Dynamo paper.

Database development workflows are slow, fragile, and frustrating despite clear data models.

Since June 2023, I’ve been running a service written in Ruby (Sinatra) that provides several Bluesky custom feeds (initially built with a feed for the iOS/Mac developers community in mind, later expanded to many other feeds). If you don’t know much abo...

Introducing Monarch, a simple yet flexible migrations library for Swift that helps manage user data changes across app updates with minimal hassle.

Introducing Boutique, a new architecture that reimagines MVC for SwiftUI by adding a Store layer to handle state management and data flow in a familiar, approachable way.

This week I went to Berlin for 2 days to attend the MongoBerlin conference organized by 10gen, the creators of MongoDB. I took a lot of notes from the presentations, and I figured this may be useful for someone if they missed a presentation (or just cou...

A few days ago I spent a couple of hours trying to install the full text search engine Sphinx on my work computer in order to use it in my current project. I’m posting the details here, maybe this will save someone some time…