Field Notes · Practitioner Journal
Field notes from real deployments.
Shorter observational pieces drawn from real engineering environments — the patterns that show up in practice, the things that surprised us, the questions a deployment actually answered.
Long-form papers and doctrine live separately on the research page.
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The real bottleneck is usually not engineering capacity
What teams describe as a throughput problem is often illegibility in disguise. A note from real deployments on why understanding compounds faster than output.
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Earlier writing is published at ivannovak.com/research.
The work itself is what's worth reading.
The clearest version of this thinking lands when it lands on a real codebase. Start with the review.