Systems Thinking

Locking across machines is harder than you think

“Just retry” only works if your operation is idempotent

Your LLM application will hit rate limits. Here's how to handle it gracefully with exponential backoff, token buckets, and priority queuing.

The Invisible Tax of AI Tokenization: Why Non-English Speakers Pay More

Uncover the sources of cache inconsistency, its impacts, and hands-on strategies to measure and mitigate it for reliable systems.

Uncover the sources of cache inconsistency, its impacts, and hands-on strategies to measure and mitigate it for reliable systems.

Exporting B-Tree Wisdom to Caches, Queues, and Distributed Architectures for Real-World Wins