The Archive
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Aug 24, 2026
The story of the 8 years when AWS let engineers bid against each other for servers, why it stopped, and what it teaches about buying compute cheaply today
Aug 17, 2026
A request fans out across 50 services and comes back slow. Every dashboard is green. Tracing is how we find out where the time actually went.
Aug 10, 2026
Three tools, one decision. Here's how to choose, and why it's usually not the one you think.
Aug 3, 2026
At-least-once, at-most-once, exactly-once. What do these actually mean, and which one do you really have?
