Scaling & Infra22 min read
Serverless on AWS in Production — What Nobody Tells You Until It Hurts
Not a "what is serverless" post. The stuff you learn after the demo, from someone who's run it at scale.
Writing
39 long-form articles on production engineering — how real systems fail, why, and what actually fixed them.
3 articles matching “DynamoDB”
Observability16 min read
Averages Are a Lie — The Long Tail That Quietly Runs Every System You Build, From p99 Latency to Hot Keys
The bell curve taught you the average is a fair summary and outliers are rare. In software both halves are false: latencies, key popularity, file sizes and follower counts are heavy-tailed power laws where the outliers…
Architecture Decisions16 min read
There Is No Global Now — Why Distributed Systems Can't Trust the Clock, and How Lamport, Vector Clocks, and Google's TrueTime Fake It
"Stamp each write with the current time and keep the latest" feels obvious — and it silently deletes data, because two machines can never agree on what time it is.