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Tobias Lang
Writing about distributed systems, databases and the trade-offs behind production incidents.
A payment endpoint retried once at the wrong moment can cost more than the outage that caused the retry. We learned that the hard way last year, and the fix was not a new service. It was one header an
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Noah Bennett
Notes on backend systems, reliability and the trade-offs behind them.
Hashing the body is the step people forget, and it hides the bug you want to see.
Noah Bennett
Notes on backend systems, reliability and the trade-offs behind them.
Hashing the body is the step people forget, and it hides the bug you want to see.