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August 10, 2025

Designing Resilient Queues for Burst Traffic

Lessons from re-architecting Docxster's ingestion pipeline to withstand a million events per day.

#distributed-systems #resiliency #queues

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May 2, 2025

Shipping a Routing Engine During a Hackathon

How our NASA Space Apps team built a dynamic routing engine in 36 hours without losing our minds.

#hackathons #teamwork #product

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March 18, 2025

My Observability Playbook for Early-Stage Teams

Practical instrumentation steps that help growing teams catch issues before customers do.

#observability #startups #tooling

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