Roberto's blog

Decision matrices as a thinking tool

Conquer dev environments with Nix

From Gatsby to Hugo: a Markdown minimalist's journey

Understanding Distributed Systems 1.1

Testing and operating distributed systems

Leader election best practices

How distributed systems fail

Scalability patterns of distributed systems

The costs of microservices

Resiliency patterns of distributed systems

How to conduct a system design interview

What every developer should know about database consistency

The second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems is out

I am writing a book

Why you should measure tail latencies

Back of the envelope estimation hacks

What every developer should know about TCP

Don't trust default timeouts

How do you prepare for the system design interview?

I am back

A martingale approach to detect changes in histograms

Differential privacy for dummies

How to review a data analysis

Counting at scale

Monoids for analytics

Spark best practices