The failure that felt normal
A client's AI image feature failed on the same schedule every day since launch. The team called it normal and quietly lost every user who hit it.
Articles by Evgeny Potapov
What Postgres knows about your tables
How to predict what PostgreSQL would do with a query without running it: the statistics the planner reads and where an offline analyzer finds them.
AI-First Coding: Closing the Gap Between Skeptics and Practitioners in Dev Teams
Notes from a Tel Aviv meetup: why developer skepticism is mostly outdated, where the real concerns sit, and how adoption spreads without a mandate.
Claude Code Workshop & Best Practices
A hands-on Claude Code session: structuring prompts, holding context across a large codebase, and the habits that stop you burning tokens.
Building an effective observability strategy - Part 3
Once the layers and the instrumentation are in place, on-call changes. The practices that cut escalations from the rotation to the dev team.
Building an effective observability strategy - Part 2
Observability is not a tool you buy, it is code. How much of a production system is instrumentation, and what that costs in developer time.
Building an effective observability strategy - Part 1
An observability strategy built from the users a system serves: six layers from user experience down to infrastructure, and what each one answers.