James Cooper

The beauty of distributed systems is that they fail in ways you never imagined possible.

If your microservices all deploy together, you don't have microservices. You have a distributed monolith.

Postgres can do more than you think. Before adding Redis, before adding Elasticsearch — check if Postgres can handle it.

Every outage teaches you something new. Today I learned that DNS TTL of 86400 means you can't fix things quickly.