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Originally published on subhanfarrakh.com/blog A monorepo starts simple: two packages, fast builds, easy sharing. Then it grows. Six packages, twelve packages. Suddenly npm run build in the root takes four minutes because it rebuilds every package every time, even the ones that haven't changed. This
The software industry has gone through several dramatic transitions over the past two decades. We moved from manual deployments to DevOps, from monoliths to microservices, and from scripted automation to AI-assisted development. Now another shift is happening — one that changes not only how we write
For years, software development had a fairly clear progression. Junior developers focused on syntax and implementation. Senior developers designed systems. Architects made the bigger technical decisions — scalability, integrations, platform strategy, security, performance, and long-term maintainabil
Microservices Patterns: A Practical Guide to Choosing the Right Architecture Most teams don't fail at microservices because the pattern is wrong. They fail because they adopted all the patterns at once, before they understood which problems each one was actually solving. I've watched teams ship a se
After sharing my Kubernetes journey, preparation strategy, exam-day experience, and the mistakes I made along the way, I wanted to create something more practical. One of the biggest lessons I learned while preparing for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam is that success is not just a
Storyblok Tool Plugins are useful when editors need to perform an action directly in the Visual Editor. In this article, we will build a Tool Plugin with SvelteKit. The plugin reads the current story context, checks space-level settings, and sends the story payload to a configured webhook. The examp
Most devs know git commit, git push, git stash. Then there's a whole floor below that nobody visits. Try it yourself: clone git-archaeology-lab, run bash setup.sh, and every command in this article has a working exercise waiting for you. git worktree — multiple checkouts, one repo This one is crimin
My organisation recently underwent a major restructuring. In a matter of weeks, my team doubled in size and multiplied its responsibilities: we went from supporting a handful of AWS accounts to owning infrastructure across several product lines and (together with other infra teams) being in charge o
Why DevOps Engineers Need Practical Tutorials, Not Just Theory DevOps has become one of the most practical areas in modern IT. It is not enough to understand what CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Linux, or cloud infrastructure mean at a high level. Engineers also need to know how these tools wo
Most of the time I'm signed into my work Docker Hub account, and that's fine. Almost everything I build ends up there. Then one weekend I was playing around with openruntimes/orchestrator, an orchestration service for running containerized workloads with callbacks. I had a PR open with some small tw
A developer stares at a red CI. They have two options: the test is wrong, or the code is wrong. They pick one in less than a second. It's a prior they almost never name. A week ago I wrote a rule for myself: when a validator complains about the same failure twice, fix the validator. Two days ago the
If you've wired up an AWS CodeBuild project to pull source from GitHub UpdateProject or trigger your first OAuthProviderException: User is not authorized to access connection arn:aws:codestar-connections:us-east-1:123456789012:connection/... The error wording is wrong in two different ways at the sa
After sharing my journey toward becoming a Kubestronaut and earning CKA, CKAD, and CKS certifications, one of the most common questions I receive is: “How did you prepare for the CKA exam?” In this article, I’ll share the exact resources, hands-on labs, and study strategy that helped me clear the Ce
If you let Claude Code, Cursor, Devin, Aider, Copilot, or any other coding agent open PRs against your repo, you already know the problem. The diff looks fine on a fast read. CI is green. You merge it. A week later you find the test that "passed" got deleted, or the error handling is a silent catch
For the past several months I've been building Deploy Center, a self-hosted CI/CD deployment platform. v3.0 shipped recently, and I want to share the architecture decisions, what worked, and what I'd do differently. TL;DR: https://github.com/FutureSolutionDev/Deploy-Center-Server — MIT licensed, Typ
The dotfiles piece from May 22 named hooks as one component of a personal AI stack and moved on. They deserve more than a passing mention. Hooks are the primitive that turns taste into code — the editor's auto-format-on-save for AI work, run on the agent's actions instead of yours. Anthropic's hooks
AI Coding & Vibe Coding: Build Faster Without Losing the Plot AI coding is no longer just autocomplete. It is planning, editing, testing, debugging, refactoring, and sometimes opening pull requests while you do something else. That sounds insane if you compare it to old-school programming. But it al
