Distributed Systems
The Shape of a Good Incident Postmortem
Most postmortems fail not at the writing but at the framing. The shape of the document is the shape of the lesson — and most documents have the wrong shape.
Engineering essays, three pillars
joc-thoughts
An editorial-tech blog by Jocta Torres on distributed systems, ML/AI, and the philosophy of computer science.
ML & AI
Training-Data Provenance Is the Real Alignment Problem
Before we argue about model behavior, we should be able to point to a row of data and explain how it got into the corpus. We mostly cannot.
CS & Philosophy
Naming Things Is the Last Hard Problem in Computer Science
Cache invalidation got tooling. Off-by-one errors got tests. Naming is still mostly vibes, and that has cost us more than we admit.