Notes
A running stream of essays, scribbles, stories, and poems.
panta rhei
if I could, I would no regrets, whatsoever apples should remain red green apples, be green birds chirp ducks quack what makes a duck a bird is ...
I Tried to Invent a Better Replication Policy. It Failed.
A while ago I had a very smart-sounding distributed systems idea: older data matters less, so why are we still replicating it like it’s on fire?
Reliability Theatre
Many organizations claim that they run on SLOs. Their dashboards show healthy services. Their uptime numbers look excellent. Their users still expe...
Why Reliability Is a Moral Property
Most harm in the world is caused by people who meant well.
Close Enough
I had a dream It didn't have a great meaning I am not Martin A dream about things I can't say Not because of some kind of secrecy Things I can't ...