Service Health and Health Checks

We were talking about health check endpoints(/health) for a service in our team standup yesterday. These checks are usually used by some kind of work producer (load balancer) for example to perform checks and servers are taken out out of service if these checks fail. Like always … | Continue reading


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Learning Distributed Systems

A self directed learning path and foundational material | Continue reading


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Something Important for Someone Important

What to work on? | Continue reading


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Pioneers, Settlers and Town Planners

How to organise product teams | Continue reading


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Ashby's Law and Managing Software Entropy

Why one size fits all doesn't work | Continue reading


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How to become a (more) senior developer

How to become a (more) senior developer | Continue reading


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Reliability Theatre

How over enthusiasm can backfire around SLOs and SLIs | Continue reading


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