https://malamsyah.com This is my meditations RSS feed https://malamsyah.com/meditation/three-books-that-shaped-my-decisions In a world of wars and uncertainty, Annie Duke, Nassim Taleb, and the idea of power laws gave me a framework for navigating chaos — taking risks, surviving failures, and knowing which decisions actually matter. Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://malamsyah.com/meditation/my-daughter-turns-one Reflections on a year of fatherhood, a failed startup, debt free, and moving to Japan — and how the order of decisions matters as much as the decisions themselves. Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://malamsyah.com/meditation/forgetting-the-basics A stumble over Go channels reminded me that architecture vision is pointless without keeping the fundamentals sharp — and that code is only one piece of real-world engineering. Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://malamsyah.com/meditation/welcome-alika The day Alika arrived, my mental roadmap stretched from quarterly OKRs to the kind of world she will grow up in. Sun, 16 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://malamsyah.com/meditation/locality-vs-srp Single-Responsibility Principle is great on paper, but keeping related behavior close together trumps textbook purity when you are debugging at 2 AM. Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://malamsyah.com/meditation/from-90minutes-to-10-monitoring-overhaul How better dashboards and alerting transformed firefighting into a routine drill. Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://malamsyah.com/meditation/teaching-tracing-multiplying-debugging-speed Mentoring teammates to use distributed tracing and cut debugging time by 60%. Sat, 05 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://malamsyah.com/meditation/backward-compatible Why building backward-compatible endpoints — and pairing them with rigorous tests — gave us peace of mind and true ownership. Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://malamsyah.com/meditation/when-traffic-surges-5-and-nothing-breaks Preparation, load-testing, and optimization that kept a fintech platform calm under promotional pressure. Sat, 17 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://malamsyah.com/meditation/guardrails-for-an-ai-assistant Fixing a demo mishap by adding safety nets to an AI-powered accessibility assistant. Thu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://malamsyah.com/meditation/legacy-to-lean-shrinking-deploy-times-by-70 Refactoring a legacy Java codebase into Go modules to unlock weekly releases and happier developers. Wed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://malamsyah.com/meditation/zerodowntime-migration-to-microservices-in-healthcare Strategies for moving a monolith to microservices while maintaining uptime. Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://malamsyah.com/meditation/letting-go-for-team I believed every problem could be fixed with patience and feedback — until one teammate's toxic behavior forced me to choose between one person and the well-being of everyone else. Fri, 18 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://malamsyah.com/meditation/cheap-mistakes Psychological safety is not a poster on the wall — it is tests that fail fast, dashboards that tell the truth, and blue-green deploys that let us ship without heart attacks. Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://malamsyah.com/meditation/leading-by-listening A diverse team taught me that trading micromanaging for empathy, leading by example, and coding shoulder-to-shoulder beats any management framework. Sat, 10 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://malamsyah.com/meditation/overengineering In an interview I almost talked myself out of the job — proof that my biggest weakness is turning every nail into a distributed-systems hammer. Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://malamsyah.com/meditation/building-an-observability-culture Driving org-wide adoption of logs and metrics to accelerate incident response. Sat, 10 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://malamsyah.com/meditation/designing-a-multicurrency-payment-service Building safeguards into a fintech microservice that now processes $20M+ a year. Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://malamsyah.com/meditation/lesson-learned-from-db-outage How one forgotten lock timeout, silent dead tuples, and an ill-timed migration took a core service offline — and the guard-rails we added afterward. Mon, 12 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://malamsyah.com/meditation/retry-and-circuit-breaker How adding smart retries and a circuit breaker to our Backend-for-Frontend stopped downstream hiccups from turning ride orders into spinning loaders. Wed, 07 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://malamsyah.com/meditation/breaking-the-monolith-10-ride-growth-at-gojek Lessons from splitting a ride-hailing platform into microservices to scale smoothly during peak hours. Sat, 15 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT https://malamsyah.com/meditation/staying-calm-during-a-3am-outage How a first on-call experience taught me the power of calm and teamwork in resolving production incidents. Fri, 15 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT https://malamsyah.com/meditation/lesson-from-first-failed-startup How chasing shiny tech, missing product-market fit, and the pain of winding down taught me urgency and empathy. Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT