What DigitalOcean's allocatable memory tax taught me about node sizing, eviction order, and asking a cluster for what you actually need.
On the quiet relief of shipping code that is merely good enough — and the year it took me to believe it.
Reimplementing something famous is less about the data structures and more about sitting with a bug for three days.
A field guide to the moment before you understand a codebase, when everything looks like a mistake.
The most exciting thing a database can do is exactly what you expected, at three in the morning.