September 11, 2026 A toy Neki router to understand sharded Postgres I built a ~260-line wire-compatible router to see where the shard key saves you, then read PlanetScale's 118M QPS benchmark against it.
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June 2, 2026 Tier 3 logging in code: OpenTelemetry to Grafana Tempo The three changes that take a serverless API from Powertools and traceparent strings to OTel SDK spans shipping to Tempo, with a runnable docker-compose stack.
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June 1, 2026 Tier 2 logging in code: Powertools, EMF, traceparent The three changes that take a serverless API from CloudWatch-only logging to Tier 2, walked through with a runnable LocalStack repo and the actual log lines it produces.
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May 31, 2026 API logging in production Three-tier guide to logging a serverless API on AWS. The CloudWatch-only baseline in detail, plus what I would reach for next when it strains.
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May 29, 2026 DynamoDB single-table design, worked through Four entities, six access patterns, one table, one GSI. The key design walked step by step with the runnable repo behind it.
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