In August 2023, HashiCorp announced it was changing Terraform’s license from MPL 2.0 (open source) to the Business Source License (BSL). The community reaction was swift and decisive: within weeks, the OpenTF Foundation forked Terraform and launched OpenTofu. By 2026, OpenTofu has not only caught up with Terraform but diverged meaningfully, adding features the HashiCorp roadmap deprioritized. Here’s the state of IaC in 2026.
on Next.js, React, Frontend, Performance, Web development
Next.js 15 has been in production for over a year now, and the dust has settled on the App Router patterns that actually work. What started as a confusing paradigm shift — “where did getServerSideProps go?” — has matured into a powerful model for building fast, scalable web applications. But the learning curve is real, and the pitfalls are subtle. Here’s what I’ve learned from deploying it at scale.
on Kubernetes, Devops, Cloud native, Go, Operators
The Kubernetes operator pattern has become the standard way to encode operational knowledge into code. What started as a way to manage stateful applications like databases has expanded to cover everything from certificate management to ML model deployments. In 2026, operators are so pervasive that most platform teams build at least one custom operator. Here’s how to build them well.
on Distributed systems, Temporal, Restate, Workflow, Backend
Distributed systems have a dirty secret: most of the code isn’t business logic. It’s glue. Retry loops, idempotency keys, saga compensations, distributed locks, timeout handling — the machinery that makes workflows reliable dwarfs the code that makes them useful. Durable execution is a paradigm that promises to make this machinery invisible.
on Ai, Llm, Infrastructure, Api gateway, Cost optimization
As organizations move from LLM experimentation to production, a critical infrastructure gap becomes apparent: who manages the complexity of routing requests, controlling costs, enforcing rate limits, and maintaining observability across multiple AI providers? The answer increasingly is the AI Gateway — a purpose-built proxy layer sitting between your applications and LLM providers.
