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What "boring" engineering actually means
Boring is not slow, simple, or unambitious. Boring is the dial we turn up when reliability matters more than novelty — which is most of the time.
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Stripe Connect: the playbook we wish we had
Five years of shipping Stripe Connect — marketplaces, payouts, dispute handling, and the edges that turn a working demo into a robust production system.
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Why we reach for Postgres first (and second)
Most products do not need a new database. They need someone who knows Postgres well enough to stop reaching for new ones. Here is our default, and the few times we break it.
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The deploy pipeline that does not page you at 3am
A good deploy pipeline is boring on purpose: small changes, fast rollbacks, and enough observability to know what broke before a customer tells you.
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Shipping AI features without betting the company on them
AI features are easy to demo and hard to make reliable. The boring approach treats the model as one unreliable dependency inside a system you still control.
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An MVP is not a disposable prototype
The "minimum" in MVP is about scope, not quality. The parts you cut and the parts you never cut are what separate a fast launch from a slow rewrite.
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