Hello, World

This is the first post on a small corner of the internet where I plan to think out loud about distributed computing — the parts that are genuinely hard, and the parts that only look hard until you draw the right diagram.

I spend my days working on scaling problems: queues that back up at the worst moment, caches that lie, consensus that's slower than the marketing slides suggest, and the quiet art of making many machines agree on what time it is. I don't have all the answers, but I have plenty of notes.

What to expect

Short, practical write-ups. No tutorials-for-the-sake-of-tutorials, and no images — just text you can actually read. Some posts will be war stories, some will be back-of-the-envelope math, and some will just be me arguing with myself about CAP trade-offs.

The best distributed system is the one you didn't have to build.

If that sounds like your kind of thing, stick around. More soon.