The Software Factory Has a Bottleneck, and It Is the Job
The Software Factory Has a Bottleneck, and It Is the Job

In September, a developer survey found that 42 percent of respondents now let AI write at least half of their code. A year earlier the figure was 12. Around the same time, a dataset of eight million pull requests showed that AI-generated ones get merged within a month roughly a third of the time, against about 85 percent for code people wrote themselves. They come from different studies with different samples, so they don’t measure the same thing.

Monday, October 5, 2026 | 7 minutes Read
Event Sourcing on PostgreSQL: No Kafka Required
Event Sourcing on PostgreSQL: No Kafka Required

Every time I mention event sourcing, someone asks which message broker we run underneath it. The honest answer is none. The event store for the platform I work on, a system of record for property units and metering-device lifecycles, is a PostgreSQL table with a handful of indexes. No Kafka, no EventStoreDB, no exotic infrastructure. Just a relational database doing what it has always been good at: storing rows durably and letting you query them.

Monday, September 28, 2026 | 7 minutes Read
Spring Boot Production-Ready Checklist (2026)
Spring Boot Production-Ready Checklist (2026)

Shipping a Spring Boot service is easy. Keeping it fast, secure and operable at three in the morning is the hard part. This is the checklist I walk through before a rollout, condensed from services I have taken to production on Kubernetes over the last few years, currently on Spring Boot 4 and Java 25. It is deliberately not a list of everything you could do. It is the set of things whose absence has cost me, or a team I worked with, an incident.

Monday, August 17, 2026 | 7 minutes Read