I use AI coding agents every day. I believe they are reshaping how we build software, and I think the teams that adopt them deliberately will outperform those that don't. I am not writing this to warn you away from AI-assisted development. I am writing this because the loudest voices in the AI enthusiasm camp are also the most allergic to discussing what can go wrong. And that worries me more than
A short guide to organizing FastAPI apps beyond a single main.py file. FastAPI makes it easy to start with a single main.py file. That is great for demos, prototypes, and small APIs. But once your application grows, one file can quickly turn into a mix of routes, database logic, security helpers, settings, and business rules. A clear project structure helps keep the app easier to understand, test,
What is FastAPI? As the name suggests, FastAPI is a modern Python framework designed for building RESTful APIs with high performance and minimal boilerplate. In 2026, it has become the industry standard because it’s exceptionally fast, reliable, and includes powerful out of the box features — such as automatic interactive documentation and native support for asynchronous programming. These comma
On Second Thought — Episode 06 The ORM hides the SQL. The cache hides the ORM. The service mesh hides the services. The operator hides the YAML, which already hid the kubelet, which already hid the container, which already hid the process. By Tuesday, nobody quite remembers what the original problem was. They are too busy configuring its sixth wrapper. This is the post about that wrapper. When som
Every team experiences incidents. The teams that grow stronger from them are the ones that take postmortems seriously — not as blame sessions, but as structured learning opportunities. Yet most postmortems end up as a wall of text nobody reads twice, filed away and forgotten until the same incident happens again six months later. This guide walks you through writing postmortems that genuinely chan