The Invariants I Didn't Hold
An honest accounting of a write-ahead log: what it guarantees, where the documentation outran the code, and the pattern in every gap.
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The Reliability Envelope I Didn't Finish
An honest accounting of what this job queue guarantees, what it doesn't, and the config settings that do nothing at all.
Ten Posts Later: What I'd Do Differently
Looking back at a collaborative canvas app, the decisions that held up, the ones that didn't, and what's still broken.
What Building a Drawing App Taught Me About Performance
Performance issues don’t show up immediately, they build up quietly until your assumptions stop working.