<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>EC Work</title><description>Writing by Ernest Carr</description><link>https://ecwork.blog/</link><item><title><![CDATA[Twelve Years of Building Software: What I Know Now]]></title><description><![CDATA[A practical reflection on systems, trade-offs, performance, and the parts of engineering that become clearer with experience.]]></description><link>https://ecwork.blog/writing/twelve-years-of-building-software-what-i-know-now</link><guid>https://ecwork.blog/writing/twelve-years-of-building-software-what-i-know-now</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Deep Redis Tuning Taught Me About Performance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Performance tuning becomes much clearer when you stop treating the cache as a black box and start measuring the whole path.]]></description><link>https://ecwork.blog/writing/what-deep-redis-tuning-taught-me-about-performance</link><guid>https://ecwork.blog/writing/what-deep-redis-tuning-taught-me-about-performance</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Designing Event-Driven Systems with Kafka]]></title><description><![CDATA[A practical checklist for thinking about event contracts, ordering, retries, idempotency, and observability.]]></description><link>https://ecwork.blog/writing/designing-event-driven-systems-with-kafka</link><guid>https://ecwork.blog/writing/designing-event-driven-systems-with-kafka</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>