How to peacefully grow your serviceIn the last almost two decades, I have seen numerous Internet services ranging from small services for niche markets to Tier 1 services for…Aug 24, 2022A response icon2Aug 24, 2022A response icon2
Three Ways to Trace End-to-endHaving end-to-end distributed traces is a huge challenge for any project. In distributed tracing, end-to-end tracing is a term often used…Jul 7, 2021A response icon1Jul 7, 2021A response icon1
Why is metric collection still a hard problem in 2020?Metric collection keeps being one of the hard problems. We’ve been collecting metrics for a very long time, so why is this a hard problem…Dec 6, 2020A response icon2Dec 6, 2020A response icon2
What did I forget by working for the same company?My Saturday morning coffee is disrupted by this tweet:Nov 22, 2020A response icon2Nov 22, 2020A response icon2
Correlation in Latency AnalysisThis article was my response to Amazon’s writing assessment when I was interviewed. I answered the question of “What is the most inventive…Oct 22, 2020Oct 22, 2020
Published inGoogle Cloud - CommunitySpanner’s SQL StorySpanner is a distributed database Google initiated a while ago to build a highly available and highly consistent database for its own…Jul 22, 2020Jul 22, 2020
Published inGoogle Cloud - CommunityHow does Spanner avoid single point of failures in writes?Google’s Spanner is a relational database with 99.999% availability which is roughly 5 mins a year. Spanner is a distributed system and…May 19, 2020May 19, 2020
Things I Wished More Developers Knew About DatabasesA large majority of computer systems have some state and are likely to depend on a storage system. My knowledge on databases accumulated…Apr 21, 2020A response icon31Apr 21, 2020A response icon31
Published inGoogle Cloud - CommunityPersistent Disks and ReplicationIf you are a cloud user, you probably have seen how unconventional storage options can get. This is even true for disks you access from…Oct 21, 2019A response icon3Oct 21, 2019A response icon3
Published inObservability+Health, Availability, DebuggabilityAs we collect various observability signals from systems, it fosters a new conversation around the classification of the signals.May 9, 2019A response icon1May 9, 2019A response icon1
