Notes on building software.
Essays on the engineering and product decisions behind the work — databases, performance, and the systems that quietly run businesses.
Product ·
7 min readBuilding a CRM clients actually use
Most CRMs fail not because of missing features, but because they model someone else’s workflow. Here is how I model the real one first.
Engineering ·
9 min readPredicate pushdown, explained simply
How moving filters closer to storage turned a 90-second query into an 8-second one — without buying a single extra server.
Frontend ·
6 min readWebGL without killing performance
You can ship a beautiful animated hero and still hit a 100 Lighthouse score. Here is the budget I work within.
Engineering ·
8 min readERP modules that share one ledger
The difference between an ERP and four spreadsheets in a trench coat is a single shared ledger. Here is why that matters.