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Notes on building systems that last.

How I design and build backend systems: the decisions, the trade-offs, and what I’d do differently.

22 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
What I’d harden next in DocFlow
DocFlow retries, records every attempt and validates its output. What’s left is the quiet failure: a request that stays stuck and nobody notices. Five gaps, in the order I’d close them.
- Celery
- Reliability
- FastAPI
- System design
26 Sept 2026 · 5 min read
How I built the Trustplot API
The FastAPI monolith behind Trustplot: parcel lookups over Kigali GIS data, risk ratings that admit what they don’t know, screening that survives failing layers, and PDF reports.
- FastAPI
- PostGIS
- GIS
- System design