Your CI is slow. Your pre-commit hooks timeout. Developers disable linting to ship faster.
The culprit? eslint-plugin-import.
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│ Linting 10,000 files ...Speed has become a status symbol in tech.
Fast shipping.
Rapid iteration.
Quick pivots.
Short cycles.
From the outside, it looks like momentum.
From the inside, it often feels like noise.
After watching teams build, scale, and sometimes collapse under the pressure to move faster, one pattern keeps repeating:
Ever felt that uncomfortable pause before opening your AWS bill?
That moment where you know something is off, but you still hope it’s just a rounding error.
I’ve been there.
For years, EC2 felt like the safest option. Familiar. Predictable.
But in 2025, while managing a few internal services, I realized something uncomfortable:
I wasn’t paying fo...
Celebrating the successful completion of a dynamic six-week journey from November 3rd to December 14th, 2025, we proudly spotlight the exceptional achievements of our Voyage 58 teams. Throughout this voyage, developers around the globe united to innovate, collaborate, and elevate their skills—transforming ideas into impactful applications. Participants not only honed technical expertise but als...
Facebook’s system design interviews tested not only my technical skills but also how I think architecturally under pressure. It felt daunting at first — so many components, tradeoffs, scalability challenges. But after months of digging into the right resources, practicing mock interviews, and iterating my designs, things clicked.
Here’s a story-driven guide packed with the top 7...
Your AI Agent Isn’t Unsafe — It’s Unstoppable (And That’s the Problem)
A lot of engineers worry about AI safety in terms of:
hallucinations
bias
model accuracy
alignment
Those are real issues.
But there’s a more basic systems question we don’t ask often enough:
Can this AI system be stopped — cleanly, by design?
The Common ...