Architecture Decisions20 min read
Why Your Consistent Hashing Is Still Failing in Prod — and When Range Partitions Are the Right Tool
SVG-backed walkthrough: ring hotspots, successor overload when a node dies, and two ring generations during deploy.
Writing
39 long-form articles on production engineering — how real systems fail, why, and what actually fixed them.
3 articles matching “Hashing”
Query Optimization15 min read
The Data Structure That Lies to Save Your Disk — How Bloom Filters Say "Definitely Not Here" in 1% of the Space
We're trained to demand our data structures be correct — so here's one that's wrong on purpose, and runs inside Cassandra, RocksDB, Bigtable, most CDNs, and your browser's malware check.
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…