When Nothing Is Dropped but the Pipeline Still Can't Keep Up
A real-time system can finish a test with zero data loss and still fail the test.
Read note ↗ENGINEERING NOTES
Notes on systems and engineering work.
Short technical notes based on real engineering problems, investigations, architecture decisions and lessons learned.
When the Control Plane and the Code Disagree
Why an AI-assisted development system needs reconciliation, not only task execution.
Read note ↗Why AI Coding Agents Need Bounded Authority
Effective AI-assisted development depends on scope, permissions, context, validation, and recovery—not prompts alone.
Read note ↗Fail Closed, Not Confidently Wrong
A validation result is only as strong as the boundary of the evidence behind it.
Read note ↗Diagnosing Backpressure in a Real-Time Telemetry Pipeline
A practical reasoning pattern for separating queue growth, downstream saturation, and incomplete observation.
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