Reliability

2 articles tagged “Reliability”.

• The One-Word Bug That Broke Our Worker for 6 Days

  28 April 2026 · 4 min read

  Our background worker silently did nothing for six days. No crash, no alert. The root cause was one wrong word in a shell script.

• Why Most Engineers Shouldn't Build Distributed Systems (And Why I Did Anyway)

  5 March 2026 · 3 min read

  Distributed systems bring partial failure, scheduling and tracing pain. Why most teams should start with a monolith, and what I learned building one anyway.

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