Field notes

Longer reads for leads who prefer paragraphs over hype.

Hero art for Drawing queues before choosing brokers

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
Hero art for Trace budgets as a team sport

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
Hero art for Warm caches, cool heads

2025-01-18

Warm caches, cool heads

TTL drama is really communication drama. Three facilitation tricks that keep cache meetings short.

Jiwon Han

cachingperformancefacilitation
Hero art for Bulkheads on paper first

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
Hero art for Magazine layouts for architecture reviews

2025-03-07

Magazine layouts for architecture reviews

Borrow editorial pacing when presenting system maps—your reviewers are readers, not parsers.

Haneul Park

communicationdesignreviews