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  <description>Eleven years of long posts about databases, queues and the unfashionable middle of the stack. No newsletter, no sponsors, no trackers.</description>
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  <title>The desk</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Concrete, a notebook, and nothing else.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Contacts</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Gold on fibreglass, forty times life size.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>A socket, populated</title>
  <description><![CDATA[The bit everybody draws as a rectangle.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Surface mount</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Where the queue actually lives.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Two in the morning</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Most of these posts started here.]]></description>
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  <title>Syntax</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Colour is the only decoration on this site.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>A reader, by email</title>
  <description><![CDATA[The retries post saved us in the middle of an incident. I had it open on the second screen.]]></description>
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  <title>Logistics SaaS</title>
  <description><![CDATA[He facilitated the postmortem on our worst outage. Nobody got blamed and we actually fixed the cause.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Payments platform</title>
  <description><![CDATA[One week on our queries and the p99 went from four seconds to under three hundred milliseconds. The write-up explained wh]]></description>
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  <title>The index existed. Postgres ignored it anyway</title>
  <description><![CDATA[A statistics problem that looked like a planner bug for three days, and how to tell the difference.]]></description>
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  <title>Your retries are the outage</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Exponential backoff without jitter, and the thundering herd that took four hours to recognise.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Cache invalidation is a routing problem</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Why publish-subscribe beat every time-to-live we tried, and the one case where it did not.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Connection pools lie to you</title>
  <description><![CDATA[What the pool metrics show, what the database sees, and the gap that hid a leak for a month.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>We deleted the microservice</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Eighteen months in, two engineers, and a network hop that cost more than the isolation was worth.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Latency is a distribution, not a number</title>
  <description><![CDATA[The p50 was fine. It was always fine. That was the problem.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Contact Us</title>
  <description><![CDATA[We'll take great care of you!]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2019 17:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
  <link>https:///contact-us</link>
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  <title>About</title>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2019 17:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Services</title>
  <description><![CDATA[<div>Our Patients Always Leave 100% Satisfied</div><div><br></div>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2019 16:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Blogs</title>
  <description><![CDATA[<div>Welcome To Our Blog. </div><div>We Hope You Enjoy The Reads!</div><div><br></div>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2019 16:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
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