The happy path
2026.016The abstractions rotate every few years. The failure modes don't.
Resilience
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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.
2021
PostgreSQL HA
2021.074Streaming replication, automated failover, and the operational lessons that aren't in the PostgreSQL docs -- split-brain, silent lag, and why DR drills matter more than DR plans.