https://victorbenavides.dev Commit & Push — Victor Benavides' dev blog. Backend engineering, architecture, and the trade-offs we all make, one commit at a time. en Victor Benavides https://victorbenavides.dev/blog/i-rebuilt-this-blog-in-one-afternoon-with-an-ai-pair/ https://victorbenavides.dev/blog/i-rebuilt-this-blog-in-one-afternoon-with-an-ai-pair/ Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Ten months of silence, one afternoon of work: how this blog left Squarespace for a stack I own — and an honest accounting of what the AI did versus what still needed me. https://victorbenavides.dev/blog/overengineering-future-proofing-ego-or-just-a-way-to-learn/ https://victorbenavides.dev/blog/overengineering-future-proofing-ego-or-just-a-way-to-learn/ Sat, 11 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMT I knowingly built 25 microservices for a prototype that could have been a monolith. Here's why I'd do it again — and when you shouldn't. https://victorbenavides.dev/blog/grpc-vs-rest-debugging-observability-and-the-reality-of-adoption/ https://victorbenavides.dev/blog/grpc-vs-rest-debugging-observability-and-the-reality-of-adoption/ Wed, 08 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMT REST feels like home because you can debug it with a browser tab. gRPC is better on paper — so why does adoption still hurt? https://victorbenavides.dev/blog/the-love-hate-reality-of-coding-interviews-why-speed-is-winning-over-quality/ https://victorbenavides.dev/blog/the-love-hate-reality-of-coding-interviews-why-speed-is-winning-over-quality/ Sat, 04 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMT Binary trees, imaginary message queues, and no autocomplete: what coding interviews measure versus what the job actually is. https://victorbenavides.dev/blog/speed-vs-clean-code-lessons-from-c-and-javascripttypescript/ https://victorbenavides.dev/blog/speed-vs-clean-code-lessons-from-c-and-javascripttypescript/ Wed, 01 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMT Ship it today or make it maintainable tomorrow? How the language you work in quietly pushes you to one side of the trade-off.