I build backend systems and distributed services, and spend a fair amount of time thinking about reliability — and about making complicated things a little easier to understand.
A short book, but a very relevant one for these chaotic times. And yes, I think we can reasonably call the current situation chaotic—or at least *almost* chaotic.
Dead-letter queues are supposed to be a safety net, not a place where failed messages go to be forgotten.
Notes from replacing a six-hour manual process with a thirty-second automated one.
The Stormlight Archive / Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Distributed systems reliability
Homelab: Debian + Tailscale + Hermes
Better espresso, occasionally sourdough
Engineering systems that fail gracefully