Smart Polling in Flutter: Build It Once, Run It Right
Most polling in Flutter is wasteful. This post shares a production-ready Dart class that handles lifecycle, timeouts, and smart intervals no spaghetti timers.
Engineering
This is the core of what I do - building systems that actually hold up under pressure. You'll find stories here about architecting for scale, designing systems that are operable, maintainable, and fast, and navigating the trade-offs between speed and stability. It's the kind of work that happens after the MVP: where infrastructure, latency, observability, and team velocity start to matter.
Node.js vs Golang: A Practical Deep Dive
Go or Node? One is ergonomic, the other is a performance beast. After 8 years of building products in both, here's what scales, what breaks, and when to switch.
Why I Had to Ask a Junior Dev to Stop Using AI (For a While)
AI makes you faster - unless it makes you lazy. Here’s the real story of asking a junior dev to pause ChatGPT, and what it taught me about product judgment.
Why "Monolith" Became a Bad Word
Everyone fell in love with microservices, but complexity came free. Modular monoliths might just be the smarter path for most teams today. Even Amazon and Shopify circled back. Here's why that matters if you're building something new.
Flutter Is Taking Over
I started out writing native code and believed in it fully. But Flutter has evolved into something rare - a truly cross-platform system that doesn't feel like a compromise. In 2025, it's earning its spot as a real default.
Running Lean and Building Faster
Most startups don’t fail because they couldn’t build. They fail because they built too much, too early, and in the wrong direction. This is how I learned to stay lean, move fast, and build only what real user behavior actually justifies.
Simplest explanation for a phenomenon is usually the best one
Everything broke at the worst possible moment. We moved fast, hit every layer, ruled out every theory. Still nothing. Until we circled back to something so basic, we almost missed it.