Notes on building systems and the tools around them.

Writing about whatever has my attention: things I'm building, trends I'm watching, and opinions on where software is going.

Introducing Ekman: a runtime you embed, not a platform you operate

Ekman is a state machine runtime for backend services that runs inside your process. This is what it is, why every lifecycle kept turning into another service, and the engineering decisions that make one runtime able to replace them.