39 long-form articles on production engineering — how real systems fail, why, and what actually fixed them.
Architecture decisions, distributed-systems trade-offs, and observability.
2 articles in Tradeoffs in Production
Tradeoffs in Production15 min read
When a service buckles under load, the first instinct is to make the buffer bigger — and it's the most natural wrong answer in systems engineering.
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.