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There is a kind of HTTP request that modern APIs need all the time, but that the protocol has historically represented badly.

“A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.” — Leslie Lamport Everyone knows the quote.

I’m excited to announce the launch of my new book, Building LLM Systems for Platform Troubleshooting, now available on Amazon.

When certificate-based traffic starts failing intermittently after a move to the cloud, latency usually gets blamed first.

The Discovery: AI Sees What Humans Miss It started with an innocent question: "Why is the server so slow?"

Introduction Distributed systems rarely fail cleanly.

PostgreSQL 18, released September 2025, introduces asynchronous I/O.

The Problem A customer approached me after migrating their PostgreSQL database to new infrastructure.

Software engineering has always carried the tension between moving fast and staying safe.

Networks are unreliable by nature.

A customer brought me in to review their AWS setup.

The launch of TLS 1.4 brings a wave of innovation for cloud networking and security professionals.

If you are starting your journey as a solution architect in the cloud, one of the earliest surprises you may face has little to do with technology and everything to do with billing.

IKEv2 is a clean and efficient VPN protocol, but its reliance on large messages during authentication can cause surprising failures when it crosses access networks that mishandle fragments.

The Problem Images seem simple until they aren’t.