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Posts on backend architecture and what production work has taught me.

The twenty decisions that get expensive in month six→
Tenancy, audit and money are cheap to decide before the first module and painful to change once there is data. What I learned shipping eight production systems in a year.
Backend Architecture
26 August 2026
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Why our routes hold no business logic, and what broke before that rule existed.
A documentation checker that fails the commit, and why it was worth the annoyance.
Snapshots versus live reads: what a document should remember about the day it was issued.