Archive

2026 15

Jul 20 The p99.9 That Only Spiked While We Were Scaling Up
Jul 20 ORM vs Stored Procedures Was the Wrong Question
Jul 20 The Climb That Never Comes Back Down
Jul 20 The Counter That Lost 336 Of Its 400 Increments
Jul 20 The CPU Number That Didn't Move
Jul 20 The Flame Graph That Found 25 Years a Day
Jul 20 The Garbage the Collector Couldn't Collect
Jul 20 The Gentle Fix That Wasn't
Jul 20 The JVM That Was Up and Doing Nothing
Jul 20 The Profiler That Doesn't Wait for a Safe Moment
Jul 20 The Query That Paid For Everyone Else's Changes
Jul 20 The Rows That Never Left
Jul 20 The Thread That Was Never Actually Idle
Jul 20 The Three Ways Postgres Reaches a Row
Jul 20 The Update That Locked Rows It Never Touched

2025 31

Aug 4 What a Span Actually Costs
Jul 30 Sampled to Keep, Dropped Anyway
Jul 26 Your Secret Variable Is Only Hiding From You
Jul 22 It Was Never a Breach
Jul 19 Too Many Clients Already
Jul 17 More Connections, Slower Reads
Jul 10 The Debug Line You Disabled Is Still Running
Jul 5 The Priority Queue That Didn't Cut the Line
Jun 30 The Machine That Rehashed Everything
Jun 24 The Export That Got Slower Every Page
Jun 14 The Commits That Didn't Survive the Failover
Jun 9 The Read That Couldn't See Its Own Write
Jun 1 The Events That Wouldn't Compress
May 24 Catching the Bots Without Remembering the Clicks
May 14 Cranking Up the Confirm Window Made RabbitMQ Slower
May 7 The Latency Numbers Nobody Reruns
May 1 The Objects That Never Died
Apr 23 The Slowest Request Was a Garbage Collection
Apr 18 One Byte Over the Slab
Apr 13 The Messages RabbitMQ Confirmed and Lost Anyway
Apr 6 The Query That Asked Every Shard
Mar 30 Sharding RabbitMQ Without Reshuffling Everything
Mar 20 Our Fix for the Thundering Herd Was a Lock
Mar 13 The Query Plans That Only Ran Once
Mar 5 The Expired Keys Your Redis Replica Still Counts
Feb 24 Your Redis Pub/Sub Node Hears Its Own Messages
Feb 16 Redis Brings Its Own malloc
Feb 6 The Memory Redis Wouldn't Give Back
Jan 23 Everything I Got Wrong About Cache-Aside
Jan 13 Everything I Got Wrong About Rate Limiting
Jan 6 The Lie in pg_stats

2024 3

Dec 15 On Building Meaningful Software musing
Dec 15 On Building Meaningful Software
Dec 15 On Remote Work and Deep Thinking

2023 11

Mar 21 Deciphering Coupling in Software Architecture- Architecture Quantum Explored
Mar 12 Ethical Data Practices for Building Better Systems
Mar 3 Building Correct Systems in Distributed Environments
Feb 26 Unbundling Monolithic Databases for Flexibility
Feb 18 Integrating Distributed Systems for Unified Data Pipelines
Feb 11 Unifying Batch and Stream Processing for Modern Pipelines
Feb 3 Synchronizing Databases with Real-Time Streams
Jan 25 Enabling Reliable and Scalable Event Streams in Distributed Systems
Jan 17 Advancing Beyond MapReduce- Modern Frameworks for Scalable Data Processing
Jan 10 MapReduce and Distributed Filesystems- Foundations of Scalable Data Processing
Jan 4 Leveraging Unix Tools for Efficient Batch Processing

2022 34

Dec 29 Achieving Reliability with Distributed Transactions and Consensus Mechanisms
Dec 20 Understanding Ordering Guarantees in Distributed Systems
Dec 10 Linearizability in Distributed Systems
Dec 1 Consistency Guarantees in Distributed Systems
Nov 24 Knowledge Truth and Lies in Distributed Systems
Nov 16 The Challenges of Unreliable Clocks in Distributed Systems
Nov 8 Navigating Unreliable Networks in Distributed Systems
Oct 31 Faults and Partial Failures in Distributed Systems
Oct 22 Achieving Serializability in Transactions
Oct 13 Exploring Weak Isolation Levels in Databases
Oct 6 The Slippery Concept of a Transaction
Sep 28 Ensuring Accurate Request Routing in Distributed Databases
Sep 21 Efficient Methods for Rebalancing Data in Distributed Systems
Sep 13 Partitioning and Secondary Indexes- Balancing Efficiency and Complexity
Sep 9 Partitioning of Key-Value Data- Strategies and Challenges
Aug 27 Partitioning and Replication in Scaling Distributed Databases
Aug 26 Leaderless Replication Flexibility for Distributed Databases
Aug 20 Multi-Leader Replication in Distributed Databases
Aug 1 Problems with Replication Lag - Challenges and Solutions
Jul 31 Leaders and Followers - The Core of Replication
Jul 20 Modes of Dataflow in Distributed Systems
Jul 15 Formats for Encoding Data
Jul 8 Understanding Column-Oriented Storage- A Deep Dive into Analytics Optimization
Jun 30 Transaction Processing vs. Analytics Let's understand the divide
Jun 27 The Backbone of Databases- Data Structures that Power Storage
Jun 15 Unraveling Connections- Exploring Graph-Like Data Models
Jun 11 Speaking the Language of Data- A Guide to Query Languages
Jun 10 Relational Model Versus Document Model
May 31 Building Maintainable Software Systems
May 21 What is Scalability in Data Systems?
May 16 Designing Reliable Data Systems
May 16 Exploring Architectural Modularity with Subdrivers
May 16 Unlocking Decomposability for Monolithic Codebases
May 16 Component-Based Decomposition