Made by NickDesigning reliable APIs
Reliable APIs are decided long before an incident, in the boundaries, defaults, and small choices people never see.
Independent software work
Useful first. Built to last.
Software, infrastructure, and technical writing for teams whose work needs to hold up.
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Made in Lima, Peru
The practice
Software that holds up in the real world.
Made by Nick is a place for product engineering, platform work, and experiments. I work with the practical constraints that shape a product: interfaces people understand, operations that are easy to run, and decisions someone can trace later.
From the notebook
Work in progress
A practical model for edge caching
Before caching a response, decide how fresh it needs to be and what happens when it goes stale.
Capabilities
What makes the product work.
- 01Product engineering: Interfaces and APIs that make complicated work easier.
- 02Systems & platform: Cloud delivery, caching, observability, and a solid path to production.
- 03Security by design: Secure defaults and clear boundaries built into everyday engineering work.
Let's work through it