Animations for System Builders(brooker.co.za)
55 points by KraftyOne | 3 comments
Marc Brooker blog post showing LLM-built animations of system failures: Raft lost writes from lying fsync, and metastable failures in Postgres and etcd.
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Lorenz and Little: How Much Does Your Tail Cost?(brooker.co.za)
18 points by porridgeraisin | 2 comments
Marc Brooker's blog post using Lorenz curves and Little's Law to quantify how latency percentiles contribute to mean latency and the cost and capacity of tail latency.
Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder?(brooker.co.za)
33 points by surprisetalk | 1 comments
Marc Brooker's blog post explaining why the strands-decider-2B classifier uses a modified decoder LLM rather than a BERT-style encoder, comparing five designs.
Alice is impatient(brooker.co.za)
135 points by birdculture | 36 comments
You Are Here(brooker.co.za)
55 points by mltvc | 68 comments
It's Always TCP_NODELAY(brooker.co.za)
446 points by eieio | 160 comments
Marc Brooker's blog post arguing that Nagle's algorithm is outdated and TCP_NODELAY should be enabled to avoid latency issues in distributed systems.
Why Strong Consistency?(brooker.co.za)
84 points by SchwKatze | 62 comments
Do Skis Get Blunt?(brooker.co.za)
235 points by luu | 168 comments
Not Just Scale(brooker.co.za)
37 points by eatonphil | 19 comments
It's always TCP_NODELAY(brooker.co.za)
744 points by todsacerdoti | 232 comments
Marc Brooker's blog post arguing that Nagle's algorithm causes latency issues in distributed systems and TCP_NODELAY should be enabled by default.
The power of two random choices(brooker.co.za)
122 points by mfiguiere | 29 comments
What is scalability anyway?(brooker.co.za)
28 points by r4um | 6 comments
Why Aren't We Sieve-Ing?(brooker.co.za)
237 points by xyzzy_plugh | 74 comments
Invariants: A Better Debugger?(brooker.co.za)
59 points by r4um | 37 comments
