Articles

Thoughts on distributed systems, functional programming, cloud architecture, and building software that scales — collected from years of building across different paradigms and platforms.

January 15, 2024

From Monolith to 3ms P99: Architecting the IAM Control Plane

How we built a Proxy-Router service at AWS IAM that became the first to achieve fully automated build-to-deployment across 30+ regions, with P99 latency under 3 milliseconds.

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June 20, 2023

State, Time, and Scale: Why Clojure Reshaped My Brain

From Clojure and temporal databases to async channels for audio processing — how functional programming paradigms reshaped my approach to building production systems.

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March 10, 2023

The 12-Month Multiplier: Engineering a 7x Product Expansion

How a small NLP startup in Heidelberg went from a single product built over 6 years to shipping 7 products in one year — and the engineering decisions that made it possible.

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