On Building Reliable Distributed Systems
After spending the better part of a decade building distributed systems, I have come to appreciate that the hardest problems are not technical—they are about understanding failure modes that only emerge at scale.
The CAP theorem is often cited but rarely internalized. In practice, most systems do not neatly fall into CP or AP categories. They exist on a spectrum, and the real engineering challenge is understanding where your specific use case sits on that spectrum.