The protocol nobody asked for
2026.183Every team eventually builds a retry mechanism. They all build it during an incident. None of them write the spec first.
Distributed-Systems
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The happy path
2026.016The abstractions rotate every few years. The failure modes don't.
2025
autobreaker: adaptive circuit breaking
2025.319Why static failure counts break at both ends of the traffic spectrum, and a lock-free Go circuit breaker that uses percentage-based thresholds to adapt automatically.
2024
Circuit breaking in Go
2024.272The three-state machine that keeps a failing dependency from taking down everything else -- with sony/gobreaker, a custom atomic implementation, and retry composition.
Redis caching patterns
2024.172Cache-aside, write-through, write-behind -- and the three problems that make caching hard: stampedes, coordinated expiry, and invalidation.