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davidvartanian

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About davidvartanian

Subtraction Strategist. Building Beamer (beamersoftware.com). Focused on efficient scaling through operational and architectural simplification. Interested in first-principles thinking, economic logic, and removing unnecessary complexity.

Digital business card: https://thesubtractionstrategist.com

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    Structural Friction: A metric for human coordination cost

    I was leading a team and everything felt slow. Everyone was busy, but shipping features was still very slow. We tracked velocity and story points, but those metrics don't even care…

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    Shared databases are not modular, they are just a weakness

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    I canceled my Antigravity subscription today. Here is why

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    Why sharing domain data across microservices is a silent killer

    I spent a few years working at a company where all our microservices backed into MongoDB instances. We were constantly under top-down pressure to deliver fast, and because MongoDB …