#engineering-practices
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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.