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Writing from our founder, Anselm Fowel — on fintech, engineering leadership, product craft, and building at scale. Articles live on anselmfowel.com and stream in here as they are published.
Database Indexing for Application Developers
Most application developers treat the database as a black box. They write a query, it returns rows, and as long as the page loads in under a second nobody asks...
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The Engineer-to-Lead Transition
The most consequential promotion of my career was also the one I was least prepared for. I had spent years getting good at writing systems that settled...
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Designing for Audit Trails from Day One
Every fintech founder I have worked with eventually has the same uncomfortable conversation with an auditor, a regulator, or a partner bank's risk team. The...
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Setting Goals That Do Not Become Theater
Every leadership team I have worked in eventually discovers the same uncomfortable truth: the goals you write down quietly become the goals you optimize for,...
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Background Jobs in .NET: A Practical Guide
Every payments platform I have worked on eventually grows a second nervous system. Alongside the request-response code that answers an API call in...
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