39 long-form articles on production engineering — how real systems fail, why, and what actually fixed them.
3 articles matching “Linux”
Production Incidents45 min read
A payment commits, the API returns 200, the rack loses power, and after recovery the row does not exist. Before blaming the database, six questions have to be separated.
Architecture Decisions20 min read
A beginner-friendly walkthrough: what “concurrent” means, what the C10K and C10M problems actually are, how the industry usually fixes them (event loops vs whole-system design), and what still goes wrong in production —…
Tradeoffs in Production16 min read
Kernel TCP keep-alive probes the network path; app heartbeats prove the peer process is serving; HTTP Connection: keep-alive only reuses sockets.