Engineering blog

June 19, 2026 · 3 min read

What we learned from a bad deploy

A config typo, eleven minutes, and the guard rails we added afterwards.

storage

April 04, 2026 · 10 min read

How we cut cold-cache latency by a third

Prefetching the next two video segments sounded obvious. Doing it without wasting bandwidth was not.

engineering

October 21, 2025 · 6 min read

A year of on-call, in numbers

Pages per week, time to acknowledge, and the alerts we deleted.

performance

September 09, 2025 · 4 min read

Small team, boring tools

Why most of our stack is older than our youngest engineer.

performance storage