Hey!

I'm Andrei, a software engineer.

I write about designing sane software: constraints, tradeoffs, pragmatic defaults, and how to move fast without accumulating chaos.

Lately I'm focusing on Lean System Design: system design for "normal" products, with practical decisions and the reasons behind them.

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