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Notes from the platform

Long-form notes on building engineering organizations, platforms, and the systems behind them. Slow takes, not hot ones.

Start hereMay 4, 20265 min read

DodoIS HR Platform: 30k people, 1000 restaurants, throughput as the design

.NET HR platform with a Liquid sandbox for regional ops managers. Onboarding funnel from 62% to 89%. Two no-code failures including 40 laptops that walked out the door before a quarterly audit caught it.

HRCommunicationsLiquid

May 3, 20265 min read

Two apps, one platform: why we did not unify

We tried a unified app first and threw three sprints away. Then we shipped two React Native apps on a pnpm-workspaces monorepo with a 10-person team. Adoption went 18% to 73% in a quarter.

MobileLoyaltyReact Native

May 2, 20265 min read

LOOV Data Platform: near real-time without real-time

ClickHouse + Debezium + dbt, customer 360 as a versioned product, and a five-week order-pipeline rebuild I paid for noticing late ownership four months too late.

DataDWHClickHouse

May 1, 20265 min read

Migrating 120 people onto one CRM: year one

Three migration waves, a 9pm Friday rollback, six weeks of engineering burned on a medtech module I should have researched first.

CRMOperationsBitrix24