Astradot's engineering blog covers building a Kafka implementation on S3, including analysis of S3 Express append limitations for distributed systems, deterministic simulation testing in CI, and Terraform infrastructure design. Readers get technical, practitioner-level discussion of the trade-offs and problems encountered in running a cloud-native streaming system.
Website: https://blog.astradot.com/
Engineering notes from building a live algorithmic trading system in Elixir, covering production failures and design decisions such as token stores, rate limiting, account state and portfolio risk. Each post explains what was chosen, why it was enough, and what it cost.
An engineering blog from the Sequin team covering Postgres change data capture, pipeline architecture in Elixir, and product announcements. Readers get detailed explanations of design decisions such as back-pressure, delivery guarantees and duplicate handling.
Aditya Asgaonkar's personal blog posts on Ethereum protocol engineering, covering validator set consolidation to reduce peer-to-peer load, a fast block confirmation rule for proof-of-stake, and failover designs for validator clients. Readers get technical, research-style explanations of Ethereum consensus and staking infrastructure trade-offs.
Technical deep dives on distributed systems, cloud storage and networking topics such as erasure coding, the HTTP QUERY method and production failure modes. Readers get explanations of the trade-offs and mechanisms behind infrastructure design, with concrete examples.
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