Mara Vogel
Backend engineer. Writes about the boring parts of shipping software: schemas, build pipelines, and the cost of clever abstractions.
Background
Mara has spent about a decade on backend systems, mostly in places where the database outlived three generations of the application in front of it. That experience shows up in a persistent bias toward boring, inspectable data and against frameworks that own your content.
What she writes about here
- Schema design, and why the constraint you skip is the one that bites
- Build pipelines, static sites, and content that survives its CMS
- The recurring trade between authoring convenience and portability
Elsewhere
Occasionally on conference stages, reluctantly. Mostly in pull request comments.