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Apr 8, 2026
Why We Build Android First
Why OAR is focused on Android now, and how that improves product quality.
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IT Industry
Your Backups Are a Hypothesis Until You Restore Them
Backup jobs completing successfully every night tells you a file was written somewhere — it doesn't tell you the business can actually recover from it.
Jul 18, 2026Read →
IT Industry
Feature Flags Are Technical Debt With a Snooze Button
Feature flags make risky releases safe, but every flag left in the codebase after launch is a decision deferred, not a decision avoided.
Jul 17, 2026Read →
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Database Migrations Are a Coordination Problem, Not a Schema Problem
Writing the ALTER TABLE statement is the easy part — the real difficulty is getting every service and deploy in sync before and after it runs.
Jul 16, 2026Read →
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Flaky Tests Are a Trust Problem, Not a Tooling Problem
A test suite that fails randomly doesn't get fixed, it gets ignored — and once engineers stop trusting red builds, the suite stops doing its job.
Jul 15, 2026Read →