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 neither chirp nor quack clock...
I Tried to Invent a Better Replication Policy. It Failed.
I built Nearsight, a distributed KV store based on time-decaying consistency, expecting it to reduce replication cost. The prototype worked. The benchmark story didn't.
Reliability Theatre
Dashboards stay green while users fail. How to tell genuine reliability work from its theatrical counterpart.
Why Reliability Is a Moral Property
Reliability is not only technical quality. At scale, it becomes a moral property because repeated failures turn into predictable harm.
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 say Because I have never said ...