Do Nothing: My Database’s Optimization Strategy
2026-11-02 · 80 views · 11 min read
PatinaDB 0.22.0, graph performance, and the case for deleting work before optimizing it.
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Microservices Were Never a Good Idea (And Agents Are the Final Proof)
2026-08-13 · 451 views · 12 min read
My take on distributed systems architecture and engineering orgs taking the lazy way out of conflict.
Cypherlite 3: Testing distributed
2026-07-26 · 479 views · 12 min read
I Built A Deterministic Simulator And It Found Nothing
codegraph: When the Code Graph Grows Up
2026-05-19 · 982 views · 11 min read
I took the `cypherlite-indexer` from Part 2, ripped out Cypherlite as the storage layer and made it a stand-alone tool.
Cypherlite 2: I Made My Graph Database Index Its Own Codebase
2026-04-28 · 956 views · 8 min read
Last month I wrote about building Cypherlite, an embedded graph database in Rust. The punchline was: dogfooding finds bugs that unit tests don't. This post — second in the series — is about what happened when I took that further and used the database to model and navigate its own source code. Yes, it's recursive. Yes, that's part of the appeal.