A tool comparison from a consulting engagement — what Biome actually delivered, where it fell short, and the decision I'd make again (and the one I wouldn't).
A consulting story about a nightly billing job that quietly started double-charging customers after a Kubernetes migration — and the boring lock that finally fixed it.
We added Redis to fix slow API responses. Instead we got stale data, thundering herds, and a system that was harder to debug than the original problem.
A consulting story about a platform engineering initiative that checked every box on paper but collected dust in practice — and the uncomfortable reasons why.
The Axios supply chain attack reminded me of a dependency audit I ran at a client last year. What I found was worse than any vulnerability scanner could flag.