davidvartanian 1 karma 5y 6m on HN HN profile →
Subtraction Strategist. Building Beamer (beamersoftware.com). Focused on efficient scaling through operational simplification. Interested in first-principles thinking, economic logic, and removing unnecessary complexity.
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7 stories
1. 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 ve...
2 points by davidvartanian 3 hours ago | 0 comments | queued
2. Shared databases are not modular, they are just a weakness
I used to believe that defining clean interfaces and contracts between services was enough to mainta...
1 points by davidvartanian 1 days ago | 1 comments | skipped
3. I canceled my Antigravity subscription today. Here is why
I was a heavy user of Google Antigravity for my development workflow. I relied on its token throughp...
1 points by davidvartanian 2 days ago | 1 comments | skipped
4. 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. ...
1 points by davidvartanian 4 days ago | 0 comments | skipped
5. What the 2026 AI price hikes taught me about lean engineering
I spent the last two weeks struggling with AI costs going up like crazy. I realized I had been treat...
3 points by davidvartanian 6 days ago | 0 comments | skipped
6. Treat Interfaces as Organizational Treaties
I used to think that interface design was purely a technical concern. I focused on data structures, ...
2 points by davidvartanian 6 days ago | 1 comments | skipped
7. The cost of duplicating domain data for performance
I was building a system a few years ago under immense pressure to ship. We had a choice. We could im...
1 points by davidvartanian 7 days ago | 0 comments | skipped