Articles &amp; Ideas

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Feb 23, 202611 min read

Java CompletableFuture, Part 4: Production Patterns and Testing

How to handle fire-and-forget failures safely, keep systems stable under high event load, and write async tests that are fast and deterministic.

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Feb 16, 20269 min read

Java CompletableFuture, Part 3: Error Handling and Spring Boot Integration

How to handle errors in async Java code without losing them, and how to integrate CompletableFuture into Spring Boot with properly configured executors.

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Feb 10, 20267 min read

Java CompletableFuture, Part 2: Composition

The critical difference between thenApply and thenCompose, how to run independent operations in parallel, and why ForkJoinPool.commonPool() is not safe for production.

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Feb 1, 20266 min read

Java CompletableFuture, Part 1: The Foundation

A ground-up look at why CompletableFuture exists, how it evolved from raw threads and Future, and the mental model that makes async code readable instead of fragile.

Architecture & Platform Thinking

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Jan 20, 20268 min read

Designing a Mobile SDK That Developers Actually Want to Use

Most mobile SDKs are built from the inside out — designed around what the team needs to ship, not what developers need to adopt. This is how to think about SDK design the other way around.

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AI & Agentic Engineering

Jan 15, 20265 min read

AI Agents Need Architectural Boundaries, Not Just Prompts

Most teams approach agentic AI systems the same way they approached early microservices: with optimism about autonomy and insufficient thought about failure modes. The boundary problem is the same. Only the symptoms are different.

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