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Featured6 min readOct 2026The Case for an Append-Only Event TrailCritical systems have to answer how they got here, not just where they are. Postgres stays the source of truth and everything else reacts around it.ArchitectureEvent-DrivenPostgreSQLDistributed Systems

Oct 2026Healthcare Software That Cannot Fail QuietlyHealthcare software is not ordinary SaaS with clinical vocabulary. Reliability, authorization, auditability and failure behaviour carry different consequences.HealthcareDistributed SystemsReliabilityProduct Engineering

Oct 2026Realtime Is More Than Opening a WebSocketAn open connection is not a synchronised client. Reconnect, missed-event recovery, ordering and idempotency are where realtime systems actually get hard.RealtimeWebSocketsMQTTDistributed Systems

Mar 2026Designing a Zero-Knowledge Secret ManagerArgon2id, AES-256-GCM, and X25519, building a vault the server can't read.SecurityCryptographyOpen SourceCLI