Raft, Paxos, Viewstamped Replication — not as academic exercises but as practical mental models for understanding what your databases actually guarantee.
Why wall clocks lie in distributed systems, how logical clocks restore causality, and the precise guarantees you can and cannot rely on when reasoning about event ordering.
Enforcing strict module contracts in a monorepo: path aliases, project references, barrel files, and why you should treat your shared packages as published APIs.
A candid look at what actually happened when we split our monolith — the wins, the unexpected failures, and whether it was worth it.