Notes on running QUIC at the edge in 2026
Real-world latency wins from HTTP/3 in mid-tier CDN deployments. What works, what doesn't, and why the middlebox compatibility story is still messy in some regions.
Latest notes
Short, opinionated takes on infrastructure, networking, and tooling. Updated when there's something worth saying.
eBPF for application observability: the boring parts
Everyone talks about eBPF as a silver bullet. Here's what actually changed in our small infra stack after six months — and what we ripped back out.
Migrating a small Postgres workload to managed RDS
The good, the annoying, and the surprising during a single-day cutover from self-hosted Postgres to a managed AWS RDS instance. Lessons that don't fit in marketing slides.
WireGuard primitives vs. commercial VPN providers
A practical comparison from the perspective of someone who has run both for a small team. Why neither is universally "better".
Living with Let's Encrypt rate limits at scale
How a small infra team accidentally hit LE's per-week limit, what we learned about CT logs, and the alerting we wired up afterwards.