autobreaker: adaptive circuit breaking
2025.319Why static failure counts break at both ends of the traffic spectrum, and a lock-free Go circuit breaker that uses percentage-based thresholds to adapt automatically.
Go
2025
2023
Earned, not handed down
2023.261The new user service got Go because it fit. A thing built compatible with the old never needs a migration mandate.
2018
The compiler as first reviewer
2018.199How a growing team adopted Go -- not through boot camps, but through code review, shadowing, and a compiler that wouldn't let anyone be sloppy.
2017
The same tree, twice
2017.265I've built a rules engine twice, in two languages, at two scales. The tree is the same.
Designing a wallet
2017.232What a digital wallet looks like underneath -- a balance, a ledger, idempotency keys, and the gap between moving money and moving money correctly.
2016
Switching to Go
2016.342Migrating a payment processing API from Node.js to Go -- what changed, what improved, and what we gave up.