What Is Observability? A Practical Guide for Dev Teams
What is observability, and how is it different from monitoring? A practical guide to logs, metrics, traces and OpenTelemetry for teams of 5 to 50 engineers.
6 articles by Marek Solecki.
- AI Codebase Understanding
- AI Dev Tools Reviews
- Developer Onboarding
- Code Review & Automation
- Developer Experience
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Coding Project Ideas That Teach You to Read Real Code
The best coding project ideas teach you to read code you did not write. Here are projects by skill level, plus a filter to pick one and actually finish it.
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What Is a Feature Flag? A Working Engineer's Guide
A feature flag is a runtime conditional that separates deploying code from releasing it. Here are the four types, a safe rollout sequence, and how to avoid flag debt.
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Objective Summary: Definition and How to Write One
An objective summary captures facts without judgment or opinion. For developers, this covers PR descriptions, ADRs, post-mortems, and meeting notes. Here is what that means in practice.
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AI Code Refactoring Tools: What Actually Works in 2026
AI refactoring tools speed up multi-file edits but 65% of devs hit context gaps first. Here is which tool category fits which task, and the workflow that keeps your test suite green.
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Code Refactoring Techniques That Work in Real Codebases
Extract Method, branch-by-abstraction, strangler fig pattern: the refactoring techniques that reduce complexity in real codebases, measurable in hours not sentiment.
