Emergent properties

What are nominal, weak and strong emergent properties and how to identify and mitigate their negative impact in system design?

Dec 5 • Alex Ewerlöf

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November 2025

3 levels of writing

A leveling model to use writing for thinking, communication, and innovation

Nov 21 • Alex Ewerlöf

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Fitting parts

What does it mean? How is it abused? And how to work around the pitfalls?

Nov 12 • Alex Ewerlöf

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October 2025

Introducing: Local Browser AI

Using the new Prompt API for local chat in the browser

Oct 13 • Alex Ewerlöf

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August 2025

SLI Evolution Stages

How to dodge vanity metrics and measure the right service level indicator and why?

Aug 27 • Alex Ewerlöf

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SLI Compass: Fidelity and Granularity

A Mental Model to Assess Existing SLIs and Evaluate New Ones. We discuss 2 dimension: fidelity shows how closely your SLI is measuring the user…

Aug 8 • Alex Ewerlöf

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Service Level Topology

Visualizing the service consumption and measurement topology while avoiding the most common SLI/SLO pitfalls

Aug 3 • Alex Ewerlöf

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June 2025

SLA vs SLO

Demystifying the most common misconception in Service Level jargon

Jun 21 • Alex Ewerlöf

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Wardley Maps & Pace Layering for Senior Tech Leads and Engineering Leaders

Intro to both tools, why they exist, how they overlap and pragmatic tips how to use them and when

Jun 6 • Alex Ewerlöf

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May 2025

Ephemeral taskforce

The pragmatic alternative to technical committees

May 31 • Alex Ewerlöf

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When a team is too big

What signs to look for and how to increase productivity with all-round skillset

May 15 • Alex Ewerlöf

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Staff archetypes are anti-patterns

Why the Staff+ archetypes are counterproductive and what to do instead?

May 14 • Alex Ewerlöf

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