Status Is a Distributed System
Why deployment status is not a UI label, but a consistency problem across databases, queues, workers, locks, reconcilers, Kubernetes, and user trust.
Posts tagged with "architecture"
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A PaaS Is a Reconciliation Loop With a Bill Attached
Why a PaaS control plane is really a reconciliation loop: desired state, observed state, transactional outbox events, and billing that cannot afford to lie.
Durable Execution: You're Already Building It, Badly
Every retry loop, job queue, state column, and idempotency key is a piece of a durable execution engine. What Temporal, Restate, and Inngest actually solve, what they cost, and when a plain queue is still right.
The Hidden Cost of Abstractions: Why Clean Code Isn’t Always Good Code
Clean code feels good, but every layer of abstraction hides a tiny tax on performance and clarity. Here's why it matters.