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Geographic distribution and disaster recovery in distributed systems
March 24, 2025
This edition dives into multi-region strategies for geographic distribution and disaster recovery.
Building Fault Tolerance into Distributed Systems
March 17, 2025
This week in The Balanced Engineer Newsletter, we delve into designing fault tolerance into your distributed systems and why failures are inevitable.
Concurrency in Distributed Systems
March 10, 2025
This week, I'm diving into concurrency challenges in distributed systems and how to tackle them!
Understanding Scalability in Distributed Systems
March 3, 2025
This edition of The Balanced Engineer Newsletter dives into scalability in distributed systems, covering challenges for reaching scalability and common approaches!
Visibility: Writing
February 24, 2025
This week, I'm urging software engineers to embrace writing for greater visibility and influence.
Visibility: Social Media
February 17, 2025
This week, we discuss harnessing social media for professional visibility as a software engineer.
Visibility: Personal Branding
February 10, 2025
If the term “Personal Brand” makes you cringe, you're not alone. But after diving deeper into the topic this week, I’ve come to believe that developing your...
Visibility: Internal Visibility
February 3, 2025
February Theme: Visibility This month, we're diving into the topic of visibility—a key aspect of building your career and influence as a software engineer....
Availability: Incident Investigation
January 27, 2025
I saved my favorite topic related to Availability for last this month: Incident Investigation. It is near and dear to my heart, having changed careers to...
Availability: Dependency Management
January 20, 2025
January Theme: Availability Last week we talked about SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets. Check it out if you missed it! Today we are going to talk about...
Availability: SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets
January 13, 2025
January Theme: Availability Last week we talked about availability and how it’s measured here. Check it out if you missed it! Today we are going to talk...
Availability: How is it measured?
January 6, 2025
This edition dives into software availability, its measurement, and why it's crucial for success.