Observability for Emerging Infra
Charity Majors·2017·Strange Loop·39 minWhy 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.
Observability: It's Not Just an Ops Thing
Charity Majors·2018Majors on why instrumenting your services is a developer responsibility — and why high-cardinality, event-based data beats dashboards of pre-aggregated metrics.
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.
Building Scalable Stateful Services
Caitie McCaffrey·2015·Strange LoopStateless 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.
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.
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.