Tomasz Wierzbicki
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Two Workers Took the Same Job
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen a “senior” engineer suggest throwing more distributed tracing or a massive observability suite at a concurrency…
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Let People Take Their Data With Them
I still remember the silence in the office at 3:14 AM during my time at that logistics startup—a silence that felt heavy because our main…
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The Cache Is Right and the Data Is Old
I remember sitting in my home office at 2:15 AM, the only light coming from a monitor that felt far too bright, staring at a…
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One Function, One Reason to Change
I remember sitting in a dark apartment during my time at that logistics startup, staring at a single 400-line function that was supposed to “just…
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Bringing Evidence to an Argument You Might Lose
I spent most of my twenties thinking that knowing how to disagree with a senior engineer meant mastering some complex, corporate-approved “communication framework” or learning…
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The Container Exits Immediately: Why
I once spent an entire Saturday afternoon trying to fix a deployment by adding more observability tools, more sidecars, and more complex telemetry, convinced that…
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Giving People Six Months and Their Data
I have a graveyard of half-finished side projects sitting on my GitHub, most of them gathering digital dust while I still pay $12 a month…
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The Browser Is Blocking You for a Reason
I can still hear the low hum of my laptop fan from that Tuesday night three years ago, sitting in a dark apartment while a…
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Finding Someone Who Cares as Much
I once spent three days of my life—and a significant amount of my sanity—trying to figure out why a legacy service I’d built for a…
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End the Meeting With a Decision
I once sat through a three-hour meeting where four senior engineers argued about whether to use a graph database or a relational one, while the…