Building Scalable Microservices with Golang
A deep dive into designing and implementing production-ready microservices using Go, covering patterns like circuit breakers, rate limiting, and graceful degradation.
December 15, 2024Read →
Writing & Thinking
26 ARTICLESLongform notes on distributed systems, backend engineering, and the decisions that make or break software at scale.
Advanced TypeScript Patterns for Large Codebases
Exploring advanced type-level programming in TypeScript — branded types, template literal types, conditional types, and patterns that make large codebases maintainable.
November 28, 2024Read →
Zero-Downtime Deployments on Kubernetes
A practical guide to achieving true zero-downtime deployments with Kubernetes, covering rolling updates, health checks, PodDisruptionBudgets, and blue-green strategies.
November 10, 2024Read →
React Server Components: A Mental Model
Understanding the paradigm shift of React Server Components — how they work under the hood, when to use them, and how they change the way we think about React applications.
October 22, 2024Read →
Designing Event-Driven Systems with Apache Kafka
From event sourcing to CQRS, a comprehensive guide to building robust event-driven architectures using Kafka — with real-world patterns, pitfalls, and production lessons.
October 5, 2024Read →
Raft Leader Elections Under Real Network Chaos
How election timers, heartbeat jitter, and fsync latency interact in production Raft clusters, and what to tune before split-brain scares your team.
May 22, 2026Read →
Postgres Index Bloat and Fillfactor Strategies
A practical approach to reducing index bloat in write-heavy OLTP systems using fillfactor tuning, HOT-friendly schema design, and targeted reindex plans.
May 21, 2026Read →
Kubernetes Pod Startup Critical Path Analysis
Break down cold-start latency from scheduler queue to readiness probe success, with specific tactics for reducing startup p99 in multi-tenant clusters.
May 20, 2026Read →
gRPC Stream Backpressure with Flow Control Windows
How to prevent memory blowups and long-tail latency in bidirectional gRPC streams using bounded buffers and dynamic flow-control tuning.
May 18, 2026Read →
Multi-Region Idempotency for Payment APIs
Designing payment mutation endpoints that remain safe under retries, failover races, and duplicate submit storms across regions.
May 17, 2026Read →
Building Low-Latency Search with Hybrid Indexes
Combining lexical inverted indexes with vector retrieval for high-recall, low-latency developer search workloads at scale.
May 15, 2026Read →
Time-Series Cardinality Budgeting for Prometheus
A governance model for labels and metric families that keeps Prometheus fast during incidents while preserving useful debugging signals.
May 14, 2026Read →
ClickHouse Materialized View Pipelines for Product Analytics
Designing ingestion and rollup pipelines with ClickHouse materialized views for reliable sub-second dashboard queries.
May 13, 2026Read →
Online MySQL Migrations with Dual-Write Cutovers
A tested migration sequence for large MySQL tables using shadow schema, dual writes, checksums, and rollback-safe traffic switching.
May 11, 2026Read →
Building Internal Platform Scorecards That Drive Adoption
How platform teams can improve reliability and velocity with actionable scorecards linked to auto-fix workflows.
May 10, 2026Read →
Event Sourcing Snapshot Cadence and Replay Costs
A cost model for snapshot frequency in event-sourced systems, balancing write overhead against replay latency and incident recovery speed.
May 9, 2026Read →
Zero-Trust Service Identity with SPIFFE in Kubernetes
A migration guide from network trust to workload identity using SPIFFE/SPIRE, short-lived certs, and policy shadow mode.
May 8, 2026Read →
Adaptive Kafka Consumer Concurrency with Lag Feedback
Dynamic worker scaling for consumers driven by lag slope and handler latency, with safeguards to avoid rebalance thrash.
May 7, 2026Read →
SLO Burn-Rate Alerting That Reduces Noise
Designing multi-window burn-rate alerts that catch real reliability regressions early without paging teams for harmless variance.
May 6, 2026Read →
WebAssembly Edge Filters for API Hardening
Use WASM edge filters to enforce deterministic request normalization and basic abuse controls before traffic reaches core services.
May 5, 2026Read →
OAuth Refresh Token Rotation for Public Clients
Secure token lifecycle patterns for mobile and SPA apps with refresh rotation, reuse detection, and compromise-aware session revocation.
May 4, 2026Read →
Redis Streams Job Recovery with Claim Loops
Reliable background processing with Redis Streams using consumer groups, pending-entry recovery, and explicit poison-message handling.
May 3, 2026Read →
Cost-Aware Batch Scheduling on Spot Nodes
Reduce compute spend safely with interruption-aware scheduling, checkpointing, and queue-level SLA classes for batch workloads.
May 2, 2026Read →
Feature Flag Control-Plane Consistency Models
How to classify flags by risk and assign consistency guarantees so kill switches are strong while experiments stay fast.
May 1, 2026Read →
LLM Agent Cache Design for Tool-Heavy Workflows
A cache architecture for agent systems combining prompt normalization, tool-result memoization, and freshness-aware invalidation.
April 30, 2026Read →
CQRS Read-Model Rebuilds with Versioned Cutover
Rebuild large read models online using side-by-side projections, semantic diff checks, and cohort-based traffic migration.
April 29, 2026Read →