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Notes from production

Things I ran into while shipping systems, written up while the details were still fresh. Mostly streaming, databases and the failure modes nobody documents.

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The consumer that wouldn't stay up

A Kafka consumer group stuck in a restart loop, one malformed message, and why auto.offset.reset is the wrong place to look for a fix.

  • Kafka
  • Debugging
  • Streaming
Open to full-stack / backend roles

Got a system that needs to hold up under real traffic?

I'm looking for full-stack and backend roles where the hard part is the load, the latency or the money moving through it. Happy to talk through anything you're building.