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Notes on systems & reliability.

Short, practical pieces on the engineering problems I find interesting — written for the engineer who has to ship it.

Mar 4, 2026·2 min read

When SQL Is the Bottleneck: Migrating Relationships to a Graph

Why we moved healthcare-professional relationships out of a MySQL monolith and into Neo4j for audience targeting — and how to tell when a graph is the right call.

Neo4jDatabases

Jan 20, 2026·2 min read

Ship the Feature as a Package, Not a Copy-Paste

How turning authentication and onboarding into an installable npm package — instead of rebuilding it per app — let ops reconfigure flows in minutes and kept the experience consistent across apps.

Developer ExperienceArchitecture