• Napkin Problem 16: When To Write a Simulator Sep 2021
• Napkin Problem 15: Increase HTTP Performance by Fitting In the Initial TCP Slow Start Window Jul 2021
• Napkin Problem 14: Using checksums to verify syncing 100M database records Jan 2021
• Napkin Problem 13: Filtering with Inverted Indexes Nov 2020
• Napkin Problem 12: Recommendations Sep 2020
• Interview on Changelog on Napkin Math Sep 2020
• Napkin Problem 11: Circuit Breakers Aug 2020
• Napkin Problem 10: MySQL transactions per second vs fsyncs per second Jul 2020
• Pig Pit Jul 2020
• Napkin Problem 9: Inverted Index Performance and Merkle Tree Syncronization Jun 2020
• Adjacent Possible: Model for Peeking into the Future May 2020
• Napkin Problem 8: Data Synchronization May 2020
• Napkin Problem 7: Revision History Apr 2020
• Napkin Problem 6: In-memory Search Mar 2020
• Superorganizers: How I Learn Mar 2020
• Napkin Problem 5: Composite Primary Keys Feb 2020
• 2019 Jan 2020
• Napkin Problem 4: Redis throughput Jan 2020
• Napkin Problem 3: Membership Intersection Service Dec 2019
• Napkin Problem 2: Expected Database Query Latency Nov 2019
• Napkin Problem 1: Logging Cost Oct 2019
• Talk at SRECON EU: Advanced Napkin Math: Estimating System Performance from First Principles Oct 2019
• 2018 Jan 2019
• The Kindle Chronicles Podcast about Reading Oct 2018
• How I Read Jul 2018
• Media Playlists Jun 2018
• Positive Unknown-Unknowns Mar 2018
• Peak Complexity Feb 2018
• Interview with Scale Your Code on Scaling Shopify, Round Two Jan 2018
• 2017 Dec 2017
• Talk at GOTO Copenhagen: Shopify's Pods Architecture Oct 2017
• Talk at @Scale: Resiliency Testing with Toxiproxy Aug 2017
• Shitty First Software Drafts Jun 2017
• Talk at Railsconf: 5 Years of Rails Scaling to 80K RPS Apr 2017
• What happens to a webserver when clients refresh really fast? Feb 2017
• Minimum Viable Airtable Feb 2017
• 2016 Jan 2017
• Shitlist Driven Development Dec 2016
• How I use Airtable Nov 2016
• Talk at Full Stack Fest: Multi-DC Sep 2016
• Employees Only Podcast Jul 2016
• Mental Modeling Mar 2016
• Talk at QCON Sao Paulo: Shopify at Scale Mar 2016
• Talk at CUSEC: Reliable Software in a Chaotic World Jan 2016
• 2015 Jan 2016
• Season Driven Cooking Dec 2015
• Talk at Euruko: Super-Reliable Software Oct 2015
• Interview with Scale Your Code on Scaling Shopify and Running Docker in Production Sep 2015
• Why Docker is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production Jul 2015
• Talk at Dockercon: Resilient Routing and Discovery Jun 2015
• Talk at Goruco: Building and Testing Resilient Applications Jun 2015
• Talk at GOTO Chicago: Patterns for Docker Success May 2015
• Talk at Container Summit: Fireside chat on containers in production Apr 2015
• Building and Testing Resilient Ruby on Rails Applications Jan 2015
• Talk at DockerCon EU: From This-Looks-Fun to Production Dec 2014
• Talk at DevOps Days Berlin: Docker at Shopify Oct 2014
• Kafka Producer Pipeline for Ruby on Rails Jul 2014
• Letterpress Cheater Algorithm Sep 2013
• Unix Background Queue Sep 2013
• Keeping it simple with Test::Unit Mar 2013
• Why I'm glad my iPhone broke Jan 2013
• 30 days of super productivity Jan 2013
• Multitasking makes you dumb Nov 2012
• My journey to the International Olympiad in Informatics Jun 2012
• Stop relying on your ORM and learn SQL Mar 2011
• A simple Imgur Bash screenshot utility May 2010