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Distributed systems, platform engineering, and the organisational physics that break them. Written from incidents, not slide decks.
Anatomy of a Kafka Lock Convoy
kafkaincidentsdistributed-systemsHow eight single-member consumers fetching 4,742 partitions each stalled a ten-broker Kafka 3.7 cluster one broker at a time, and why the metrics never noticed.
I help engineering teams untangle distributed systems, platform, and delivery problems. If that sounds like your week, email me at alex@bularca.me.