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Engineering Principles for Building Financial Systems

Best practices and principles to create accurate and reliable software based financial systems.

Jul 10 •

June 2024

Data observability and alerting in plain SQL

Patterns and practical examples of SQL based alerts for data pipelines

Jun 12 •

December 2022

Substack is having replica lag issues

Why do comments you make on substack not appear immediately? In this post I describe why Substack is having these problems, and how they can solve it.

Dec 7, 2022 •

Software Engineering Proverbs

A list of proverbs, most not unique to me

Dec 2, 2022 •

January 2022

A blog about the foolishness I encounter, trying to get computers to do the things I want them to.

Jan 1, 2022 •

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