Tomasz Wierzbicki
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Back It Up and Then Restore It Once
I don’t care how many fancy, enterprise-grade cloud storage solutions or “automated sync” marketing pages you read; most of them are just expensive ways to…
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Review the Code, Not the Person
I once spent an entire afternoon arguing with a junior dev about whether to use a ternary operator or an if-else block, feeling incredibly superior…
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Leading When Nobody Put You in Charge
I spent most of my twenties thinking that leadership was something granted to you via a formal change in your Jira permissions or a new…
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Watching Memory Climb and Finding Out Why
I once spent an entire weekend staring at a Grafana dashboard that looked like a steady, upward staircase to heaven, wondering why our pod was…
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Store Utc, Argue Later
I remember sitting in my kitchen at 3:15 AM, staring at a log file that made absolutely no sense, wondering why a payment scheduled for…
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Data Rules When You Have Forty Users
I spent most of my time at a logistics startup trying to explain to management that we didn’t need a $50,000 enterprise compliance suite just…
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Pinned Is Not the Same as Abandoned
I remember sitting in a dimly lit office during my time at that logistics startup, staring at a build pipeline that had been dead for…
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Measure Before You Optimise Anything
I once spent an entire weekend at a logistics startup trying to figure out why our nightly batch job was crawling, convinced I needed some…
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A Privacy Policy in Sentences You Understand
I spent three weeks at a logistics startup once trying to parse a privacy policy that was essentially a legal fortress designed to hide more…
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Question Marks Where Letters Should Be
I remember sitting in my kitchen at 3:00 AM, staring at a terminal window that looked like it had been hit by a shotgun blast…