The 37-minute Tuesday: anatomy of a cascading failure
A retry storm, a shared connection pool, and the graph everyone screenshotted. What actually happened.
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Your database index is a phone book, and other lies
The B-tree analogy everyone learns conceals the three behaviours that actually bite in production.
NTP: the protocol quietly holding up your alibi
Distributed systems agree on almost nothing — except, mostly, the time. Here's the 40-year-old reason.
Opinion: your microservices are a distributed monolith with extra steps
If you can't deploy one service without a meeting, you have re-invented the monolith over HTTP.
The cache invalidation joke is not a joke
'There are only two hard things…' — the punchline hides a real taxonomy worth learning.
Reading RFCs for fun (a defence)
The originals are shorter, clearer and funnier than the blog posts about them.
