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Distributed Systems

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.

Distributed Systems

What Consensus Protocols Teach Us About Deadlines

Raft, Paxos, and the surprising lesson that durable agreement is mostly about agreeing when to stop waiting.