Distributed SQLite: 5 Myths Tested After 12 Years
Distributed SQLite went from one person's weekend project to a venture-funded product category without most engineers noticing the decade in between. In...
Cloud & DevOps
Cloud infrastructure, containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps engineering practices.
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Registrar Lockdown vs Layered Defense: When Each Wins
Imagine waking up to find every domain your company owns — production, staging, the one holding your MX records — suspended by your domain registrar overnight....
When Git Breaks: Monorepo Lessons From 30,000 Merges a Day
If you run a git monorepo, there is a number somewhere in your future where the wheels come off. For Anthropic, that number was roughly 30,000 merges a day, a...
How Talorys Runs Stateful AI Agents on Serverless
Here's my contrarian take, and I'll defend it: a personal AI agent is a better fit for serverless infrastructure than it is for the Raspberry Pi under your...
eBPF Spinlocks and the Art of Kernel Debugging
A spinlock bug in eBPF doesn't announce itself with a stack trace or an error message. It announces itself with a machine that stops responding. No logs, no...
DNS Configuration Is Still Breaking Production
Apple's latest macOS release broke custom DNS settings for thousands of developers. Specifically, it started intercepting queries for the .internal TLD — which...
Defensive Engineering: Systems That Resist Catastrophe
A junior engineer at a mid-sized fintech company ran a database migration script on a Friday afternoon. The script was supposed to clean up orphaned records in...
Sub-Millisecond VM Sandboxes via Copy-on-Write
Starting a Docker container takes about 500 milliseconds. A Firecracker microVM takes about 125 milliseconds. A V8 isolate takes about 5 milliseconds. But a...
FreeBSD: The Underappreciated Server OS
When Netflix serves you a movie, the video data is likely coming from a FreeBSD server. When you send a WhatsApp message, it's routed through infrastructure...