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Blog

Notes from 15 years of backend engineering. Discussion happens on LinkedIn — this site has no comments by design.

java
spring-boot
kafka
ai-assisted-dev

Aug 14, 20263 min read

What AI pair-programming actually looks like inside a bank

Not vibe coding. A discipline of small diffs, review-first habits, and knowing which code the AI is never allowed to write.

ai-assisted-dev
java

Aug 8, 20262 min read

Manual Kafka offset commits: the difference between `received` and `done`

Auto-commit tells Kafka you received a message. In payments, the only thing that matters is whether you finished it.

java
kafka
spring-boot