Recent posts by Tom Fischer

Platform engineer. I turn 3am pages into 3pm coffees ☕

• migrated a service with zero downtime today. nobody noticed. that’s the whole point. 🤫 Tue Jun 30 2026
• code review comment of the day: “why”. that’s it. that’s the whole review. Fri Jun 26 2026
• performance win: I stopped fetching the same data four times. groundbreaking work here. Wed Jun 24 2026
• the senior move isn’t knowing everything, it’s knowing what to google fast. Sat Jun 20 2026
• shipped a feature nobody asked for but everybody loves. gut > roadmap sometimes. Fri Jun 19 2026