Escaping the Kafka Rebalance Spiral
If you’ve ever worked with Kafka in production, you’ve probably dealt with consumer group rebalancing at some point. Most of the time, it’s just background n...
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Distributed Systems
The Hidden Race in Our Data Export Pipeline
It started with a file that was slightly larger than it should have been. There were no crashes and no alerts, just an export that didn’t look quite right. W...
Performance Engineering
Coordinated Omission: The Bias Built Into How We Measure Latency
Coordinated omission is a measurement problem that shows up in a lot of load testing setups, and it has a habit of making latency numbers look much better th...