Index · The log
Notes from the work.
What we have learned shipping software for other people, and for ourselves. Written by the engineer who did the work.
Practice
What a good scope document contains
Before any code, we write down the problem, the constraints, and what "shipped" means. Here is the template we actually use.1 min readTom HollisEngineeringReconciliation without a nightly batch
How we turned a six-hour month-end close into a query, using an append-only ledger and idempotent replays.1 min readMaya Okonkwo, Tom HollisPracticeShipping to production is the job
Staging is a rehearsal. Until software is in production serving real users, none of the interesting problems have happened yet.1 min readTom Hollis3 notes.