July 31, 2026 · 4 min read
Small team, boring tools
Why most of our stack is older than our youngest engineer.
performance culture
Field notes
July 06, 2026 · 6 min read
Our approach to capacity planning
We plan for the launch day, not the average day. That changes the maths.
networking culture
June 28, 2026 · 12 min read
Why we stopped compressing everything
Some payloads got bigger, some CPUs got hotter. A short tour of the trade-offs.
networking
April 02, 2026 · 4 min read
Range requests are harder than they look
Partial content, caching keys and the clients that ignore both.
video
March 15, 2026 · 11 min read
Notes from migrating our storage tier
We moved four petabytes without a maintenance window. Here is what went wrong along the way.
performance
September 18, 2025 · 14 min read
Choosing points of presence on a budget
Latency maps, transit prices and the one spreadsheet that decided it.
performance networking