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- SystemsMay 5, 20262 min read
Distributed systems basics adults revisit under pressure
Partial failures, clock lies, consensus tradeoffs, idempotency at money boundaries, and load shedding vocabulary operators actually recognize.
distributed-systemsreliabilityconsensusfallacies - PlatformsApril 25, 20262 min read
Edge runtime explained — locality, isolation, and the limits of v8 snippets
What shifts when handlers run closer to users: cold starts, memory ceilings, cryptography constraints, and why edge does not magically delete physics.
EdgelatencyNext.jsreliability - SystemsApril 18, 20262 min read
Event-driven architecture without losing operational discipline
Outboxes versus brittle dual-writes, idempotent consumers, poison queues, and drawing lines between choreography and orchestration.
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