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I've been writing code, reading code, and living vicariously through computers for as long as I can remember. I like to build things that work. I also dabble in machining, welding, cooking and skiing.

  • By Marc Brooker
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly one post per month
  • First post on

Posts per month

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Posts per month
Month starting Posts
Aug 2021 3
Sep 2021 0
Oct 2021 1
Nov 2021 1
Dec 2021 0
Jan 2022 2
Feb 2022 2
Mar 2022 0
Apr 2022 1
May 2022 1
Jun 2022 1
Jul 2022 2
Aug 2022 1
Sep 2022 1
Oct 2022 2
Nov 2022 3
Dec 2022 1
Jan 2023 2
Feb 2023 1
Mar 2023 2
Apr 2023 1
May 2023 2
Jun 2023 2
Jul 2023 2
Aug 2023 1
Sep 2023 2
Oct 2023 1
Nov 2023 1
Dec 2023 1
Jan 2024 2
Feb 2024 2
Mar 2024 2
Apr 2024 2
May 2024 1
Jun 2024 1
Jul 2024 1

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

Let's Consign CAP to the Cabinet of Curiosities
Let’s Consign CAP to the Cabinet of Curiosities CAP? Again? Still? Brewer’s CAP theorem, and Gilbert and Lynch’s formalization of it, is the first introduction to hard trade-offs for many distributed systems engineers. Going by …
On , by Marc Brooker, 1,243 words
Not Just Scale
Not Just Scale Bookmarking this so I can stop writing it over and over. It seems like everywhere I look on the internet these days, somebody’s making some form of the following argument: You don’t …
On , by Marc Brooker, 1,283 words
It's always TCP_NODELAY. Every damn time.
It’s always TCP_NODELAY. Every damn time. It's not the 1980s anymore, thankfully. The first thing I check when debugging latency issues in distributed systems is whether TCP_NODELAY is enabled. And it’s not just me. Every …
On , by Marc Brooker, 1,020 words