The moment users start noticing your infrastructure, something has already gone wrong.

I don't think in features. I think in systems. Features ship. Systems survive. The difference is whether you designed for the edge case: systems that hold the weight, absorb the load, and fail gracefully when they have to.

Backend engineering isn't writing code, it's writing rules that hold under pressure. Four years in, that standard hasn't changed.

Currently engineering at Sidmach Technologies and building cool stuff.