Field notes
Longer reads for leads who prefer paragraphs over hype.
2025-02-12
Drawing queues before choosing brokers
A broker name on a slide is not architecture. Start with delivery semantics, then let infrastructure follow.
Sora Kwon
messagingqueuesdesign
2024-11-03
Trace budgets as a team sport
Instrumentation is easy; restraint is rare. Here is how we negotiate trace budgets with product partners.
Kenji Mori
observabilitySLOcollaboration
2025-01-18
Warm caches, cool heads
TTL drama is really communication drama. Three facilitation tricks that keep cache meetings short.
Jiwon Han
cachingperformancefacilitation
2024-09-29
Bulkheads on paper first
Resilience rehearsals that start in ink survive production better than those that start in YAML.
Daeun Choi
resilienceoperationstraining
2025-03-07
Magazine layouts for architecture reviews
Borrow editorial pacing when presenting system maps—your reviewers are readers, not parsers.
Haneul Park
communicationdesignreviews