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Notes on reliability, backend systems at scale, incidents worth learning from, and the occasional weekend build.
2026 2 posts
Apr 01 On Software Quality Essay Jan 27 Job Post: Matchmaking Backend Engineer (Go) Job Review 2025 7 posts
Nov 21 The most interesting thing about the Cloudflare incident report isn’t in the report. Incidents Aug 18 Getting Cooked by AI – A GameJam story Building Aug 07 Job Posting Review: Grinding Gear Games – Web Programmer Job Review Aug 04 Will AI Agents Transform Senior Engineer Career Peaks? Career Jul 31 Exploring Vibe Coding: Building Glitchjack Building Jul 26 Reliability in Games (RIG) Series Reliability Jul 26 Reliability in Games: High Level Issues Reliability 2023 1 post
Aug 07 Destiny Back End Stability Reliability 2020 1 post
Mar 16 On Incident Assumptions Incidents 2017 1 post
Apr 05 Onboarding, On-Call and Learning Career 2016 4 posts
Jul 20 Postmortem Review: Stack Exchange Outage (July 2016) Incidents Jun 10 Pete’s Terraform Tips Building Jan 28 Postmortem Review: GitHub Outage (January 2016) Incidents Jan 21 5 Lessons Learned in Ops Career 2011 1 post
Dec 14 Riding the Unicorn Building