Rewriting the smallest service first
How starting with the boring service made the big migration possible.
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A tiny build cache that saved us hours
Notes from replacing a 12-minute CI step with something boring and fast.
A weekend with a single-file database
What I liked, what surprised me, and where it stopped being a good idea.
Logs you'll actually thank yourself for
A few small habits that make incidents far less painful.
Why your p99 latency lies to you
Tail latencies hide in averages. Here's how I started measuring what users actually feel.
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I write here mostly to remember things. Backend and infrastructure by day, small tools and long walks otherwise.
Mostly about performance, caching, postmortems, developer tooling.
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