Technical articles on software development, architecture, and things I find interesting.
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Stripe gives you three main ways to integrate payments, each with different trade-offs around reliability, control, and implementation complexity. This post breaks down all three with flow diagrams and real code from a coffee shop e-commerce app.
Agent-driven development isn't just autocomplete at scale. This post breaks down what the workflow actually looks like, covering MCP servers, skills, subagents, and hooks with concrete examples.
I refactored the order flow in my Coffee Shop API from a fat synchronous controller into an event-driven system using RabbitMQ and MassTransit. This post covers the why, the comparison with REST, and the actual code.
A walkthrough of the architecture behind Beanworks' React frontend: a custom design system, typed API layer with JWT auth, TanStack Query for data fetching, and Storybook for component development.
A walkthrough of the BeanWorks coffee shop backend: TPT inheritance for products, JWT auth with roles, order snapshots, server-side price enforcement, and account management.
A walkthrough of how I built this portfolio site — the tech stack I chose, how data flows from MongoDB to the UI, and why I made certain architectural decisions along the way.