Stories by abelanger

Am I the problem? Interviewing another team to find out

Why tech companies are bad (2019)

Concurrency vs. Throughput: why more parallelism can make databases slower

Coding agents supercharge Murphy's Law

Implementing PaxosLease in Python with HTTP Flask

A Treatise on Restaurant Design

Building Online Communities

The First Idempotency Key

The startup's Postgres survival guide

Durable execution, the hard way

Supertoast tables

Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)

Escaping Misconfigured VSCode Extensions (2023)

Building a TUI is easy now

Postgres Indexes, Partitioning and LWLock:LockManager Scalability

Claude Code Psychosis

Stripe's New Homepage

The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder (2020)

Reflecting on two years as an open-source startup

Reflecting on two years as an open-source startup

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