Posts
Hookie: Multiplayer Webhook Relay for Ai-native Development
Multiplayer webhooks for AI-native development: one stable URL, gRPC fan-out to developer and agent environments, HMAC-faithful passthrough, and explicit flow control.
- Next.js
- Go
- gRPC
- Redis
If You Can't See the Boundary, You Can't Reason About the System
For App Router practitioners: React Server Components are not hard because the idea is hard. They are hard because the server and client boundary stays invisible at runtime. This post explains why that breaks reasoning, where Next.js dev tooling already helps and where RSC observability could go deeper (dev indicator, MCP), introduces RSC Boundary as the dev overlay I ship today, and sketches a constructive extension point so ecosystem tools could register inside the Next.js dev UI instead of separate chrome.
- Next.js
- React
- RSC
- Nuxt
The Hidden Complexity of Webhook Debugging
Webhooks look simple, but delivery guarantees, retries, and local tunnel workflows create subtle failure modes that waste engineering time. This post maps the real problems teams face and defines what a reliable debugging workflow should provide.
- Webhooks
- Developer Experience
- Observability
Building a Vercel-like Platform on Cloud Run
How we built an internal deployment platform on GCP with Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, Cloud Run, Secret Manager, shared routing, tenant isolation, and merged build/runtime logs.
- Platform Engineering
- GCP
- Cloud Run
- DevOps
Gatekeeping Vs. Golden Paths: Two Models of Platform Engineering
Platform teams often slow developers down with approval boards and ticket queues. Golden paths achieve the same compliance goals through self-service and opinionated defaults, and developers actually use them.
- Platform Engineering
- DevOps
- Developer Experience
KSUID in Postgresql: A Custom Function for Sortable, Prefixed Ids
KSUID is a sortable string ID format that is commonly used in distributed systems. In this post, we implement a KSUID-style generator in PostgreSQL with optional human-readable prefixes, using pgcrypto.
- PostgreSQL
- pgcrypto
- KSUID
