Project updates, technical deep-dives, and architecture decisions by ccastedo.https://yourdomain.com/https://yourdomain.com/updates/distributed-tracing-rollout/https://yourdomain.com/updates/distributed-tracing-rollout/Integrated OpenTelemetry across all services in the Cloud Migration Platform. We're now collecting traces end-to-end from the API gateway down to the database layer.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://yourdomain.com/updates/on-unit-testing-tradeoffs/https://yourdomain.com/updates/on-unit-testing-tradeoffs/After years of pushing for 80% coverage, I've changed my mind. Here's the reasoning that got me there.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://yourdomain.com/updates/idp-v2-plugins/https://yourdomain.com/updates/idp-v2-plugins/Shipped three new Backstage plugins for our IDP: automated environment provisioning, cost dashboards, and a service dependency graph.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://yourdomain.com/updates/envoy-wasm-rate-limiting/https://yourdomain.com/updates/envoy-wasm-rate-limiting/Moved rate limiting logic from a sidecar service into an Envoy WASM filter, cutting tail latency by 60% and simplifying the deployment topology.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT