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Hiring a full-time backend engineer in Barcelona comes with legal and administrative complexity that most founders don't fully anticipate.
Read moreWithout distributed tracing, debugging failures in a microservices system means correlating timestamps across disconnected log files from multiple teams. Distributed tracing makes request flows visible and failure points obvious.
Read moreMost Ruby codebases use rescue and raise for everything, which conflates recoverable domain failures with unexpected system errors. Here is a structured approach to error handling that scales past a few controllers.
Read moreTechnical disagreements are normal and often productive. Handled poorly, they damage relationships and produce worse decisions. Here's the approach I've developed over years of getting it wrong first.
Read moreManaging a team spread across the globe sounds chaotic. In practice, it’s all about structure, communication, and respect for time.
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