From DEV in 2021 to Substack Today: Continuing the Writing Journey

From DEV to Substack: Continuing the Writing Journey I started writing technology articles in 2021. My first blog was published on DEV on May 30, 2021. At the time, the intention was simple: document my research and findings in one place, and share what I was learning along the way. I have always believed that technical knowledge should be free and accessible. That belief is one of the reasons I chose DEV instead of Medium. DEV felt open, community-driven, and aligned with the idea that engineering insights should not sit behind paywalls. Over the years, writing has helped me in ways I didn’t initially expect. ✅ It forced me to structure my thinking more clearly. ✅ It made me revisit assumptions. ✅ It pushed me to explain production trade-offs more deliberately. Many of my posts, on resilience patterns, distributed systems, Git workflows, and engineering discipline, started as personal notes or project reflections. Writing turned those notes into structured knowledge. And for that, I’m