Tags
23 tags in use across Posts and Guides. Tags come from a fixed vocabulary, so related content always lands under the same label.
Domain
- AI41
Machine learning systems and the engineering around them.
- LLM35
Large language models, prompting, agents and evaluation.
- Security25
Threat models, hardening and secure defaults.
- DevOps21
Delivery pipelines, infrastructure and operations.
- Web16
The browser platform, standards and web performance.
- Systems10
CPUs, memory hierarchies and the low-level performance behind them.
- Backend7
APIs, services and the data layer behind them.
- Observability7
Metrics, traces, logs and everything they cost.
- Data3
Storage engines, pipelines and query performance.
- Frontend2
UI architecture, rendering strategies and tooling.
- Analytics1
Measuring traffic, and what the measurements actually mean.
Technology
- Python11
The Python ecosystem.
- Docker4
Container images and runtimes.
- OpenTelemetry3
The OpenTelemetry standard, SDKs and Collector.
- Go2
The Go language and its ecosystem.
- TypeScript2
TypeScript and the JavaScript runtime it compiles to.
- Postgres1
PostgreSQL internals and operations.
- Prometheus1
Prometheus, PromQL and its storage engine.
Format
- Deep dive64
Long-form analysis of how something actually works.
- Architecture39
System design, trade-offs and failure modes.
- Benchmark31
Measured comparisons with reproducible numbers.
- Tutorial26
Step-by-step, follow-along walkthroughs.
- Cost engineering11
Making systems cheaper without making them worse.