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The modern control plane is a control system.

For an interactive study of the phenomena discussed in this post, click here.

Twenty-one papers on distributed scheduling for Q2 2026 — about half I’ve already worked through, the other half I’m catching up on this quarter.

§01 The Problem o11y E ventually, every piece of software we build and deploy in production generates some user experience that requires us to examine the state of our application as it's running in production.

§01 Code as Text text I t's 9:30 AM on a Tuesday and I've just sat at my desk with a cup of coffee.

§01 The Rise of Raft consensus T he distributed systems world has witnessed a fascinating phenomenon: the rise of the Raft consensus algorithm.