Most of what I do sits between the business and the system: working out what is actually being asked for, then finding the answer the existing constraints will tolerate.

The interesting question is usually not how do we build this. It is why are we building it this way, and what that choice will cost in a year.

I write in Azerbaijani at camalali.com, because the language has almost no engineering writing at this depth. 520 long-form articles on system design, a 1,000 term technical glossary, role by role learning paths, and the browser tools above running live.

I add Azerbaijani to open source software, one pull request at a time. Below are the ten most-starred projects; the full list has every merged translation.