Sidecars and the things they hide
Jun 19
Most retry logic I've removed turned out to be hiding a real bug. The retries made the failure invisible, and the bug co…
Why I went back to plain text
Aug 7
I keep a small log of decisions in a text file. Not architectural — just small ones. "Picked X over Y because Z." Future…
The cost of one extra round trip
Mar 4
When a system surprises me, my first instinct used to be to fix the surprise. Now my first instinct is to figure out whi…
Three log lines that saved an outage
Oct 12
There's a kind of premature optimization that comes from imagining a future team. "What if someone needs to swap this ou…
On reading other people's code
Dec 6
Most retry logic I've removed turned out to be hiding a real bug. The retries made the failure invisible, and the bug co…