Joe Magerramov's blog

If you work with multi-tenant systems you are probably familiar with the concept of throttling or admission control. The idea is pretty simp...

When working on distributed systems, it's not uncommon to need a piece of logic that executes across the entire system. Some examples of...

I was at an airport during a recent business trip, watching planes take off and land when I saw the iconic Boeing 747 take off. This reminde...

In this post, I wanted to make a quick observation about batching as an underused technique in distributed systems. Systems folks have long ...

The topic of software performance and efficiency has been making rounds this month, especially around engineers not being able to influence ...

In a recent operational review, a colleague brought up how past feedback from me has influenced his team's avoidance of feature flags. I...

Well, hello there. This is a sample post to see how things look.