A consulting story about a minor field rename in an internal API that cascaded into a production incident, and what we put in place to stop it from happening again.
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Hello, I'm Luke
Personal blog about my experiences and thoughts on software development.
Latest Posts
- The latest DORA report confirms what I've seen on consulting engagements — AI tools amplify existing conditions. If your processes are solid, AI accelerates you. If they're not, you just create technical debt faster.
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- A consulting engagement where we measured where engineering hours actually went — and discovered the biggest productivity killer wasn't what anyone expected.
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- A debugging deep dive into replacing wall-of-text logs with structured logging and trace IDs — and how it cut our mean time to resolution from hours to minutes.
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- A consulting war story about a PostgreSQL-to-MongoDB migration that went sideways, what we missed in planning, and the uncomfortable lessons about knowing when not to migrate.
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