From the Field
4 articles tracking patterns, technical trade-offs, and solutions in From the Field.
The Overgrown Trail
A healthcare financial system's batch processing took an hour. After the rewrite, it took 45 seconds. But the 80x speedup wasn't the real win was removing the production risks that had accumulated over years of neglect.
Picking Up the Scent
A CTO asked for an honest assessment of their stack before a board presentation. What I found in two days changed how she talked about engineering to her board, and probably saved the company from a painful surprise during their next fundraise.
The Stampede
The program had forty engineers and was shipping slower than when it had five. A story about the paradox of scaling engineering teams, and why the fix was organizational, not technical.
Old Growth, New Trails
Building foundations for a mainframe migration that processes a million transactions per minute. How golden paths, quality standards, and the right frameworks let you scale beyond your own team.
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