Digital Workshop

Independent technology journal

Build quietly.
Learn deeply.

Field notes about dependable software, small networks and the craft of understanding complex systems.

From the workbench

Systems · 8 min

Designing services that fail gracefully

Reducing surprise when networks, disks and dependencies stop cooperating.

Networks · 6 min

A field guide to useful measurements

Latency, loss and throughput tell different stories. Measure before changing things.

Practice · 5 min

Keeping a technical notebook

Small records compound into durable operational knowledge.