Stop Debugging the Environment. Start Designing the FTL.

The “Unspoken” Truth of Firmware Engineering Let me ask you a question. How much time did you spend coding actual FTL algorithms last week? And how much time did you spend on: Fixing glibc version conflicts? Debugging Docker volume permissions? Waiting for the make command to finish, only to see it fail at 99%? Parsing raw log files manually to find that one latency spike? If you are like most of us, the ratio is probably 30% Architecture, 70% Plumbing. ...

February 10, 2026 · Raymond