Osada Blog – Thoughts on Software Engineering, Programming, Systems, and Life

The Shipping Forecast and the Art of Communication

Programming's New Frontier: The Rise of LLM-First Languages

MCP vs SDK: Two Paths to LLM-Powered Extensibility

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Fundamentals of Computer Science

Data Serving vs Transactional Systems

The Case for Being Lazy

Technical Tasks for Managers

Project Management for Software Engineers

Valkey: The New Redis Alternative

What Determines Your Engineering Organization's Culture

Compromises and Moving Forward

Lies, Damn Lies and Engineering Metrics

Stakeholder Management and Alliance Forming

Engineering Standards in Teams

Broken Window Theory in Software Teams

Empathy and Respect in Software Engineering Teams: Actions for a Team Lead

Unleashing the Power of Small Stories: Strategies for Breaking Down Backend API User Stories

Nemawashi - Power of building consensus

Getting lost in weeds of Podman

Avoiding burnout in software domain

Agile : The Snake Oil for Cobra Bites

Hyperscan C++ Wrapper

Starting With Realtime Data

Learning In Engineering Organizations

About Me

Not your grandmas' docker - Part 2

Not your grandmas' docker - Part 1

Adventures in WSL Land

Cloud9 - A cloud based IDE for your code

Codestar - A new way to get started on AWS Projects

Cost Of Allocation in High Performance Systems

SQLite for High Throughput Applications