Engineering Notes
Hands-on notes on software architecture, observability, cloud systems, AI-assisted development, and the small engineering decisions that make production work easier to reason about.
In this short blog, I wanted a sample that made Docker image bloat visible without requiring a complicated application to explain it, so I built one tiny Node service, packaged it two different ways, and measured the result. The bloated version is at 1.12GB. The lean version is at 138MB.
A Windows-first walkthrough for installing the Rust secret scanner secox, testing it with fake AWS credentials, and reading the scan output without extra ceremony.
A practical .NET lab comparing pooled and non-pooled SQL Server opens, pool exhaustion, connection leaks, and the operational habits that keep database access healthy.
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A compact coffee-shop API instrumented with OpenTelemetry, custom spans, business metrics, structured logs, and console-exported telemetry.
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