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A Diátaxis taxonomy, ADRs that running code reads, evidence-first writing, and a nightly production-to-staging database refresh — how one team made documentation cheaper to keep than to skip.
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Should a survey be "completed" or "expired"? Store the flag and it lies between updates; compute it on read and it is always true. A design for lifecycle derivation, assignee coverage, and the short-circuits that keep it fast.
Background jobs that run for minutes, pause for human answers, and survive restarts need more than a status column. A design for pausable, resumable, auditable background work: explicit states, a question channel, generation gates, and append-only logs.
Dense embeddings find paraphrases; full-text finds exact terms. How to run both legs concurrently and fuse their rankings with RRF — a simple formula that consistently beats either leg alone.
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How to run a distributed scheduler on a single table: advisory-lock leader election, SKIP LOCKED work claiming, semaphore-style concurrency caps, and heartbeat reaping.
Two small algorithms that make a notification service boring in the best way: cursor pagination that cannot skip rows, and exactly-once-flavored dispatch built on a single SQL statement.