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Notes on building things

Mostly distributed systems, occasionally weeknight projects.

Tracing a 99th-percentile latency spike that wasn't really there

observabilitypostmortemFollowing a P99 graph down through three layers of cache to find a clock-skew issue on a single host.

Why I stopped writing custom retry loops

goreliabilityA short defence of leaning on standard backoff libraries instead of hand-rolling the same bug for the fifth time.

A small Postgres trigger that quietly paid for itself

postgresSometimes the right answer is a five-line trigger and not a new service.