The week pgbouncer stopped being news
2018.193Transaction pooling, one SET that didn't stick, and a standup that moved on.
Systems
2018
The GraphQL buffer
2018.110A GraphQL gateway that started as a unified API layer for clients became the place where we could intervene without touching the backends.
2017
The first service
2017.074Picking the first piece to cut from a Perl monolith, rewriting it in Go, and switching over before you lose your nerve.
2014
Two-sided graph
2014.319Adding businesses to a social platform built on Neo4j -- and realizing both sides of the marketplace use the same graph patterns.
2012
Running two systems at once
2012.325Replacing an e-commerce frontend without turning off the old one -- carving over layer by layer while the store takes orders.
Rolling your own search
2012.074Building catalog search with flattened MongoDB documents and application-side scoring when the proper tools don't exist yet.
2010
Counting malloc
2010.318Everything else was tuned. The wall was the one function I never wrote -- malloc. A dtrace one-liner showed the paths in.