Matthew O'Riordan

An opinionated guide on the concepts any Distributed Systems Engineering should have a thorough understanding of. Whether you're looking for a role or recruiting for your team, you'll find actionable insight in this article.

June/July 2019’s Cloudflare incidents got the world thinking about additional safeguards against ‘unlikely’ DNS failure. The article below sheds light on five strategies for coping with these unlikely - but possible - DNS failures, as well as general advice for service reliability.

A technical review of the live score feature in Google search results, delivered with some surprisingly old-school tech from the 90s.

It’s not always a case of debt = bad. Used intelligently, technical debt provides quick fixes to problems and boosts innovation. But you'll soon know when your technical debt needs paying off.