June 2, 2026
Re-reading the Raft paper
Third read-through and the leader-election section still has the clearest diagrams of any consensus paper I’ve seen.
#notes#distributed-systems
Notes
Short, unpolished, reverse-chronological. Less formal than the blog.
May 14, 2026
On writing better standup updates
“Status: still working on X” is not an update. What changed since yesterday is the update.
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May 1, 2026
Cache invalidation is still the hard part
Spent the afternoon debugging a stale-cache bug that turned out to be a missing Vary header. As always.
#notes#caching