A field guide to the technical debt that is actually worth paying down
Not all technical debt deserves the same urgency. Here is the framework I use to sort real risk from background noise.
Meera Iyer
9/2/2026
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Returning to individual contributor work after eight years in management
I stepped back from an engineering director role to write code again. Here is what surprised me, six months in.
Adrian Costa
9/2/2026
What actually changed when we moved off our monolith
Two years after a real microservices migration, here's an honest accounting of what got better, what got worse, and what I'd do differently.
Meera Iyer
9/2/2026
The interview question I stopped asking, and what replaced it
For years I asked candidates to design a system on a whiteboard. I stopped, because it was measuring the wrong thing.
Adrian Costa
9/2/2026
Why 'senior' stopped being a useful word on my team
After years of using 'senior' as a catch-all title, I started defining engineering levels by specific behaviors instead. Here's what changed.
Meera Iyer
9/2/2026
The postmortem template is not the point
Most incident postmortems fail for the same reason: the template becomes the deliverable instead of the understanding it was supposed to produce.
Adrian Costa
9/2/2026
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