39 long-form articles on production engineering — how real systems fail, why, and what actually fixed them.
4 articles matching “Ordering”
Architecture Decisions16 min read
"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.
Kafka & Pipelines25 min read
You add 24 more workers to fix Kafka lag — and they all sit idle. Meanwhile one huge message is stuck at the front of a partition, and nothing behind it moves.
Scaling & Infra22 min read
Not a "what is serverless" post. The stuff you learn after the demo, from someone who's run it at scale.
Query Optimization13 min read
“We sold 3 tickets but only had 1.” The code is inside a transaction, looks right, works a hundred times locally, and only breaks in production under load.