Namespacing Mutations in a Federated Graph
How hierarchical mutation namespaces improve discoverability and organization in large federated GraphQL APIs.
Recent Posts
Processing 120,000 Telemetry Events for Fun
A look at the small Go pipeline behind an F1 live timing recorder, replay server, and terminal dashboard — with a closer look at the in-memory fanout doing the busy work.
VS Code Copilot Sandbox Dev Containers
A quick follow-up on sandboxing coding agents
Sandboxing My Coding Agents
How I started sandboxing my coding agents with Docker and VSCode Dev Containers after watching them wander outside the repo
Understanding Null in GraphQL Schema Design
When should a GraphQL field be null versus an empty list? How do non-nullable fields protect invariants while nullable fields enable partial responses. A practical guide to returning null in federated schemas.
I Benchmarked Qwen's Fast MoE Model Locally. It Was Confidently Wrong Half the Time.
The MoE variant is 3.5x faster than its dense sibling — but on my local SWE-bench run it submitted wrong or invalid answers over 52% of the time it 'completed' a task. Here's what I found.
The Customer Identifiers Pattern in Federated GraphQL
How to unify customer data across siloed business units using GraphQL Federation's @requires and @context directives.
Why Most Architecture Reviews Fail
Architecture review boards start with good intentions. Six months later, engineers see them as all red tape and no value.