Tag: Software development
Choose your hard: The maintainability load curve
Maintainability isn’t about what’s easier to write or do today. It’s about our cognitive load and what is easier to live with tomorrow. Maintainability isn’t something we should take for granted, yet it goes around achieving the least amount of real...
Carl Eubanks
What my toddler taught me about fault tolerance
Reliability isn’t perfection—it’s predictability, even in chaos. - Carl Eubanks, The 22nd Time He Told Me He Wanted Veggie Straws On Tuesday (2025). Now, before I get into anything, there’s some important context I need to provide. What are veggie s...
Carl Eubanks
The bathroom scale and the myth of scalability: Why most systems fail at rush hour—not at rest
Most systems don’t break because of a missing feature. They break because they weren’t designed to survive growth, chaos, or time—mainly chaos. That’s the first thing Designing Data-Intensive Applications wants you to understand. Chapter 1 isn’t abou...
Carl Eubanks
Mastering clarity and ambiguity: A software engineer's guide to effective communication
Effective software engineering communication doesn’t merely form. It inspires. Communication among software engineers isn’t just about exchanging information. It isn’t just about two or more people talking to each other either. It’s about empowering ...
Carl Eubanks