The Soul of Erlang and Elixir
Sasa Juric·2019·GOTO·50 minSasa Juric on what actually makes the BEAM special — isolated processes, message passing, supervision — and how those primitives produce systems that stay up while the world burns around them.
When To Use Microservices (And When Not To!)
Sam Newman, Martin Fowler·2020·GOTONewman and Fowler talk through the cases where microservices earn their keep — and the much larger set where they don't.
Jepsen 9: A Fsyncing Feeling
Kyle Kingsbury·2018·GOTOKingsbury takes a flamethrower to databases that promise more than they deliver, and shows how Jepsen catches them lying about consistency.
Building a Distributed Message Log from Scratch
Tyler Treat·2018·GOTOWhat you learn when you implement a Kafka-style log yourself: replication, leader election, fsync semantics, and the limits of 'just use a queue.'
Conflict Resolution for Eventual Consistency
Martin Kleppmann·2016·GOTOA tour of the algorithms that let independent replicas converge without a coordinator — and why CRDTs are the cleanest answer we have.
Migrating to Cloud Native with Microservices
Adrian Cockcroft·2014·GOTOCockcroft on how Netflix actually moved off the datacenter — and why microservices are a tool for shipping faster, not for being fashionable.
Event Sourcing
Greg Young·2014·GOTOYoung walks through the idea that mutating state is a lossy compression of history — and what you get back when you stop throwing the events away.