Posts

Notes on distributed systems, leading engineers, and the things in between.

2026
06 · 10

The Control Plane Is a Control System

a formal claim

14 min
05 · 19

You Can't Stop the Signal

But you can characterize it

10 min
05 · 07

Reading list, Q2 2026: distributed scheduling

twenty-one papers, sorted by structural family

6 min
2024
09 · 13

Observability from the Beginning

an argument for the entire development team

doc/ops
7 min
09 · 10

Code Review as Literary Criticism

on reading code as text

doc/praxis
8 min
06 · 17

The Raft Consensus

on the power of simplicity in distributed systems

doc/systems
4 min