short writeups on distributed systems, latency and small tools
A short story about a queue that grew unbounded until it met a consumer with opinions. Bounded queues, credit-based flow control, and why the simplest fix is usually “read less eagerly”. Includes load-test numbers from a small ingest service.
We migrated twice and learned to love indexes more than frameworks. Notes on schema reviews, query plans that surprise you at 3am, and the hidden cost of the shiny thing.
p99 is a lifestyle, not a metric. Coordinated omission, warm caches during benchmarks, and a checklist for load-testing week.
Fifteen years of blog engines later, the HTML files remain. Flat files, cheap hosting, and why this site has no build step worth naming.