Writing
Notes from the work.
Engineering write-ups on the problems we run into and how we think about them.
Two cloud databases, two cost models, one very different bill
Provisioned-throughput and per-query-scanned pricing look comparable on a feature list and diverge sharply in production. A short guide to estimating each before you commit.
3 min read
The unglamorous truth about streaming pipelines
Most of the effort in a streaming platform goes not into the processing but into the edges — the connectors, the schema drift, and the question of what happens when a downstream system is having a bad day.
3 min read
The event was created yesterday and arrived today. Which day is it?
Late-arriving data is where most analytics pipelines are quietly wrong. A practical treatment of event time versus ingestion time, bucketing, reconciliation, and the business decision nobody wants to make.
4 min read
