The Internet Was Designed With A Narrow Waist
- Andy Chu tl;dr: A narrow waist is concept, interface, or protocol that solves an interoperability problem. Picture an hourglass with M things on one side, N on the other, and an important concept in the middle. Andy illustrates how IP is an example, and how that impacts internet architecture.featured in #299
Caches, Modes, And Unstable Systems
- Marc Brooker tl;dr: "Good caches have feedback loops. Like back pressure, and limited concurrency. Bad caches are typically open-loop. This starts to give us a hint about how we may use caches safely, and points to some of the safe patterns for distributed systems caching."featured in #250
Edgar: Solving Mysteries Faster With Observability
- Elizabeth Carretto tl;dr: "Edgar helps Netflix teams troubleshoot distributed systems efficiently with the help of a summarized presentation of request tracing, logs, analysis, and metadata." A run through of how it works.featured in #204
Patterns Of Distributed Systems
- Unmesh Joshi tl;dr: "What follows is a first set of patterns observed in mainstream open source distributed systems. I hope that these set of patterns will be useful to all developers."featured in #199
Build More Reliable Distributed Systems By Breaking Them With Jepsen
- Kyle Kingsbury tl;dr: Podcast where Kyle discusses his "approach to testing complex systems, common challenges that are faced by engineers who build them, and why it is important to understand their limitations."featured in #196
Building Globally Distributed, Mission Critical Applications: Lessons From The Trenches
- Kris Beeversfeatured in #48.1