Essays that dig into distributed systems and infrastructure stories, including EU cloud sovereignty policy, hybrid quantum-classical computing and a major telecom outage caused by a GPS time bug. Each issue combines specific figures and sources with a wry, opinionated reading of what the event shows about dependencies and failure.
Website: https://www.distributedthoughts.org/
A software developer's blog going deep on CRDT internals, including fractional indexes for text editing and spreadsheets, and a disk-native Yjs implementation. Readers get implementation-level design discussion with trade-offs, data structure details and working JavaScript demos.
A weekly newsletter that explains core software engineering topics such as floating-point representation, caching, and API design in structured, multi-part explanations. Readers get ground-up technical explanations with worked examples and clear outlines.
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.
A practitioner-written newsletter from an AI solutions architect covering how AI teams move from demos to production systems, including forward deployed engineering, agent kill switches, and crash recovery with durable execution. Each issue works through a concrete fictional bank scenario and draws on real incidents and design trade-offs.
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