The Plumber's Approach to Distributed Systems
How to structure distributed systems for low latency at scale
Latest articles
The Caching Trap
Why caching is not a straightforward bandaid for improving latency and scalability in stateless distributed systems
The Next 700 Stateless Services
Why statelessness is no longer a meaningful concept for most services and what tradeoffs the standard design makes
The Overuse of Microservices
Why common microservice practices are often counter-productive for robust distributed systems
