The Exhibition
Projects, talks, open-source contributions, and writing — each piece mounted with the care it deserves.
Distributed Event Mesh
Infrastructure · 2025
A pub/sub backbone handling 40M events/day across 12 data centers. Built from scratch after the third incident with our vendor. Kafka was too heavy; this is precisely heavy.
Making Consensus Legible
QCon SF 2025
A 45-minute deep dive into Raft consensus visualized as a choreographed performance. The audience left understanding Raft. Some left wanting to implement it.
The Quiet Horror of Eventually Consistent Clocks
Personal Blog · 12 min read
How a 200ms NTP drift caused a production incident that took 3 engineers 11 hours to diagnose. A love letter to monotonic clocks.
circuit-go
Open Source
Zero-Downtime Schema Migration Engine
Tooling · 2024
Automated database schema migrations that run while traffic is live. Inspired by the 4am Saturday when a routine ALTER TABLE took down 3 services.
prism-trace
Open Source
Boring Technology as a Competitive Advantage
Gopher Con 2024
The case for choosing the dull solution. Postgres over Cassandra, Redis over custom caching, boring wins. Delivered to 300 people who agreed but still wanted to use Rust.
On Writing Runbooks That Future-You Will Actually Read
Dev Blog · 8 min read
Adaptive Rate Limiter
Infrastructure · 2023
A token bucket implementation that adjusts limits based on downstream health. Used in production across 8 services, preventing 3 cascading failures since deployment.
envoy-config-gen
Open Source
Twelve Factors Are Not Enough
Substack · 20 min read
The 12-factor app methodology is from 2011. Distributed systems in 2025 need at least 8 more. A proposal, a polemic, and a practical checklist.
The Observability Iceberg
SREcon 2023
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Conference Talks
Making Consensus Legible
Raft consensus visualized as choreography. 600 attendees. Standing room only.
Distributed SystemsBoring Technology as Competitive Advantage
The case for choosing the dull solution. Delivered to 300 people who agreed but still wanted to use Rust.
Engineering CultureThe Observability Iceberg
What dashboards show is 10% of what's happening. A tour through the other 90%.
SRE · ObservabilitySelected Writing
Twelve Factors Are Not Enough
The 12-factor app methodology is from 2011. Distributed systems in 2025 need at least 8 more.
31k reads
20 min
The Quiet Horror of Eventually Consistent Clocks
How a 200ms NTP drift caused a production incident that took 3 engineers 11 hours to diagnose.
18k reads
12 min
On Writing Runbooks That Future-You Will Actually Read
Runbooks are love letters to 3am you. Here is how to write them so they actually help.
9.2k reads
8 min
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Irregular dispatches about what I'm building, breaking, and learning. No cadence. Only when it's worth reading.
Why I rewrote the rate limiter in Rust (and then switched back to Go)
Feb 18Notes from debugging a 6-hour incident: what the traces didn't show
Jan 29The pull request that took 3 months and changed how I think about reviews
Jan 1112+
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