Notes on building systems that have to stay up. Plain language, real sources, and the numbers that go with them.
Written by Rahul Kumar Choudhary. Each piece comes out of a system that had to keep running, and the figures on every card are the ones the article has to defend.
Most of what you believe about SQL and NoSQL came from blog posts written around 2012. They were right then. They are not right now, and the two companies everyone quotes as proof both wrote down what actually happened.
One long piece, when there is one worth sending
Agents and distributed systems, argued from a codebase rather than from opinion. It goes out when a piece is finished and not on a schedule, so it will not fill your inbox.