- Brief thoughts on the recent Cloudflare outage: The Cloudflare incident was interesting because there was a failure mode that had never been seen before and also a co-incident (the status page went down at the same time) that made the context harder to investigate. Another interesting note - protective systems design to help us can sometimes cause harm!
- Why Strong Consistency?: Eventual consistency makes it hard to reason about what a reasonable looking program might do given a common read-modify-write type update action.
- Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer: I don’t think I’m a spotlight seeking person either. I’m happiest when I’m helping someone else do great things. And figuring out how to automate something. :)
