Communication
Email Signals
Clarity in the address line is clarity in the organisation.
Jupiter Jayna
British algorist based in the Cotswolds, England. He's run system engineering for some of the worlds busiest websites.
System Reliability
Boiled Frogs and Ringed Deployments
The case for ringed deployments: safety, visibility, and confidence at scale
Performance and Perception
Watching the Watchers, Part 2: How Scripts Break Your Frame Budget
Why borrowed milliseconds cost more than they seem.
Working Together
The Integration Dilemma
Balancing integration, adoption, and the lure of best-of-breed.
Working Together
Show Your Working
Why visible fixes build knowledge, demonstrate competence, and strengthen trust.
System Reliability
Trading Without a Ticker
Real-user monitoring is our market feed. Hide it, and we trade blind on player experience.
System Reliability
The Right Shoes?
The right shoes are the ones closest to production.
Working Together
The Code Belongs to Everyone
Inner sourcing only works when making changes is easy. Standards make that possible.
System Reliability
The Wrong Shoes for the Race
Test environments wobble because local ones do not exist.
Working Together
Shaping Architecture Through Behaviour
The chart is not the system. The system is what teams make visible.
Performance and Perception
As Fast As It Feels
Real speed and perceived speed are the same thing. If it feels slow, it is slow.
Working Together
Refactor, Rewrite, Repeat?
How AI shifts the balance between improving and starting over.