Writing

Notes and write-ups.

Mostly backend, distributed systems, and the occasional tooling detour. I write to remember, not to publish on a schedule.

• Notes on replication lag 12 Oct 2026 · 6 min read

  Replication lag is easy to measure badly. The number on the dashboard is usually either too noisy to alert on or too smoothed to notice a problem until the replica is minutes behind.

• Config drift is a people problem 28 Sep 2026 · 5 min read

  Every configuration management system eventually grows a second, informal system: the handful of manual changes that nobody wrote down.

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