Two teams, one PostgreSQL instance, zero ownership boundaries. A consulting story about what happens when microservices share a database — and how we eventually untangled it.
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Applied AI architecture, agent harnesses, and notes from getting AI systems into production.
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- A Renovate auto-merge bumped a transitive dependency from 6.2.1 to 6.2.2. The patch fixed rounding behavior. Our invoice calculations disagreed.
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- A client's checkout endpoint had idempotency keys. Customers still got double-charged during flash sales. The bug was a three-line race condition between SELECT and INSERT that took two weeks to find.
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- A client was six months into migrating from REST to GraphQL. Half their endpoints were converted, developer experience was arguably worse, and the frontend team was maintaining two data layers. Sometimes the right engineering decision is to stop.
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- We ran a data backfill on 140,000 subscription records while the app was live. Three weeks later, 1,800 customers had the wrong renewal date. The script looked fine. The bug was in the timing.
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