A small shelf for systems notes, papers, blogs, and anything else worth keeping around.
Please email me things you think people should read.
A short note on the kind of infrastructure problems I like: databases, search, concurrency, and correctness.
May 6, 2026A system design deep dive into payments infrastructure, distributed transactions, ledgers, idempotency, and correctness when money is moving at global scale.
April 29, 2026Designing isolated, scalable execution environments for AI coding agents, with the distributed systems tradeoffs that show up once the toy version gets real.
March 30, 2026A writeup on Diffo, a Git-inspired schema versioning system for branching, merging, and reasoning about database history beyond linear migrations.
February 9, 2026A deep dive into building a sharded Go search system with Bleve, etcd coordination, Redis caching, fan-out query execution, and hybrid ranking.