Engineering
12 min read
Designing for partial failure: why your retry logic is probably wrong
A tour through idempotency keys, exponential backoff, and the subtle ways retries turn a blip into an outage.
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Engineering
15 min read
What a CRDT actually costs you in production
Memory growth, rebalancing pain, and the operational traps nobody mentions in the papers.
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Trekking
8 min read
Eight days on the Kuari Pass: a field log
GPS traces, weather windows, and what I learned about pacing in thin air. With altitude charts.
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Astronomy
6 min read
Finding Orion from your backyard, even in the city
A pragmatic, light-pollution-aware guide to the winter sky's most reliable constellation.
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