Blog & Notes

Thoughts on backend engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, Go, and career reflections.

Go for Backend Engineers Coming from PHP — An Honest Ramp-Up

What changes, what's surprisingly familiar, and what tripped me up picking up Go after 8 years of PHP/Laravel.

September 5, 2024

OpenTelemetry in a Laravel + Node.js Stack — A Practical Guide

How we instrumented a polyglot microservices stack and shipped traces, logs, and metrics to New Relic without losing our minds.

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