Archive - Fullstack Engineering

Carry-on codebases

Travel lighter to go faster

Apr 13 • Tyler Dane

Why Claude writes simpler code

Apr 5 • Tyler Dane

We're on YouTube!

The first 4 deep-dive videos

Apr 1 • Tyler Dane

March 2026

40 swaps for auth, storage, infra, and libraries

Mar 29 • Tyler Dane

Stop building like a unicorn

10 replacements for architecture you don't need (yet)

Mar 22 • Tyler Dane

Inside GitLab CI: From YAML to Green Check

The pipeline behind the pipeline

Mar 18 • Tyler Dane

Why simplicity should be every engineer's immediate goal

Systems run best when designed to run downhill

Mar 15 • Tyler Dane

GitLab's Architecture: A Technical Deep Dive

How a boring monolith powers the world's largest independent DevOps platform

Mar 11 • Tyler Dane

20 awesomely simple things

A celebration of simplicity in software and life

Mar 8 • Tyler Dane

Ergo: a case study in approachable invention

What a small framework can teach us about system design

Mar 4 • Tyler Dane

Complexity is a choice

Why the relationships in your codebase matter more than the parts

Mar 1 • Tyler Dane

February 2026

The Actor Model: Messages and Mailboxes

The constraints that make actors powerful

Feb 25 • Tyler Dane

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