Tag: python

  • Database Indexes in Small Teams

    Database Indexes in Small Teams

    Logs answer questions you knew to ask; traces answer the ones you did not. Naming things well saved us more time than any framework migration. Feature flags are debt with an expiration date you must actually enforce. Trade-offs The rollback plan should exist before the rollout plan is approved. We measured first, and the bottleneck…

  • Ten Notes on Caching

    Ten Notes on Caching

    Our on-call rotation improved the day we deleted half of the alerts. Every retry needs a budget, otherwise it is just a slower outage. Small pull requests get real reviews, large ones get approvals. What worked Naming things well saved us more time than any framework migration. The best architecture diagram is the one the…

  • A Practical Guide to Feature Flags

    A Practical Guide to Feature Flags

    Our on-call rotation improved the day we deleted half of the alerts. Security is mostly about saying no to defaults that were convenient in 2010. Logs answer questions you knew to ask; traces answer the ones you did not. Trade-offs Logs answer questions you knew to ask; traces answer the ones you did not. Feature…