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My week with Claude Code – hard work and gotchas

I’m a firm believer in the idea that you have to use a tool to fully critique it. With that in mind I committed to using Claude Code for an entire week, putting it through its paces to see what it could – and couldn’t – do. First, the numbers: I used Claude Code for 62 hours. By Claude’s own estimate I completed 344 human-equivalent hours of work – a full four and a half… continue reading.

In defense of the “monolithic microservice”

There are a plethora of articles online about how microservices are bad. And I tend to agree with many of them – microservices are often a solution in search of a problem, and when you have multiple services running and communicating with each other, you have an increase in the number of overall problems you face as a developer. So why in the world would I recommend a microservices architecture to my client?! The truth… continue reading.