Building Scalable Stateful Services
Caitie McCaffrey·2015·Strange Loop·40 minStateless services are easy to scale but expensive to use. McCaffrey makes the case for putting state back in the service — and shows how Scuba, Ringpop, and Orleans do it.
Distributed Sagas: A Protocol for Coordinating Microservices
Caitie McCaffrey·2017·J on the BeachA pragmatic protocol for keeping a multi-service transaction consistent without two-phase commit, built on a fault-tolerant log of compensating actions.
Turning the Database Inside Out with Apache Samza
Martin Kleppmann·2015·Strange LoopKleppmann argues we've been thinking about databases backwards: the log is the source of truth, and the database is just a materialized view of it.
The Mess We're In
Joe Armstrong·2014·Strange LoopJoe Armstrong, the creator of Erlang, on why our software is in such a state — and a handful of unfashionable ideas about what to do about it.
Observability for Emerging Infra
Charity Majors·2017·Strange LoopWhy the metrics-and-logs playbook from the LAMP era falls apart the moment your system becomes a dynamic mesh of services you can't predict in advance.
Stop Writing Dead Programs
Jack Rusher·2022·Strange LoopJack Rusher argues that most of our languages are still, accidentally, designed around the punchcard — and shows what a living programming environment could look like instead.
Propositions as Types
Philip Wadler·2015·Strange LoopPhilip Wadler on the Curry–Howard correspondence — the deep, surprising equivalence between mathematical proofs and computer programs.