On writing code that lasts
Distributed systems fail in ways that are hard to predict. After years of debugging production incidents, certain patterns keep recurring. This post explores a few.
Recent writing
- Patterns in distributed systems· 21 days ago · 29,583 reads
- Ten years of terminal tooling· 3 hours ago
- What makes code readable· 23 minutes ago
Ten years of terminal tooling
Most codebases grow in directions their authors never anticipated. The pressure to optimize early is real, but constraints often produce more elegant solutions than freedom ever could.
From the archive
Distributed systems fail in ways that are hard to predict. After years of debugging production incidents, certain patterns keep recurring. This post explores a few.
About this site
Occasional thoughts on engineering practices, tooling, and how we think about code. No sponsors, no tracking, no ads.
Thoughts on craft. Updated sporadically.
Elsewhere
Occasional thoughts on systems topics. Archives here.