David Edgar's website

Sunday, 20 October 2024

🔖 How Complex Systems Fail

An analysis of complex systems, how they can (and do) fail, and how to manage their failure and their operation.

Tuesday, 18 June 2024

🔖 S3 is files, but not a filesystem

Good explainer on S3 and how different it is to a traditional (read: unix-inspired) file system.

Sunday, 09 June 2024

🔖 The Big Little Guide to Message Queues

A guide to the fundamental concepts that underlie message queues, and how they apply to popular queueing systems available today.

Saturday, 21 November 2020

🔖 The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done

🔖 The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done