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Notes

ordered by:

OSWALD—Object Storage Write-Ahead Log Device ★ 2025/10

How to Organise and Run a Platform Engineering Team for Success ★ 2023/05

Weighted Deterministic Aperture ★ 2020/08

A model for choosing the number of shards and replicas for optimal efficiency ★ 2020/08

Rebalancing data in shared-nothing distributed systems ★ 2022/01

C++ Code Hygiene 2025/02

External Sorting 2023/08

Fixing ext4 IO distribution on RAID 0 arrays 2023/02

Zipf's law and sharding 2022/06

Debugging programs running inside Docker containers, in production 2021/01

Distributed Systems Classics 2022/09

Time to Wow! 2025/02

Applying Universal Scalability Law to an individual's productivity 2023/04

On-demand, cost-efficient remote development environments, nowdev 2023/03

A mnemonic for Little's law 2022/09

Bookshelf 2025/01

Omniverse—An Operating System for thought 2023/04

8 Qualities of a Great Manager by Parasad Setty 2015/10

The critical drunk-shit-talk region 2021/11

Cyanide 2019/06

Error handling and control flow (in JavaScript) 2016/01

Do the Work 2015/11