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Dive into a collection of past posts and rediscover timeless content.

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#20 Uptime Sync: Amazon DC Repairs, Cloudflare’s Linux Vulnerability, and GitHub’s Crisis

May 23, 2026

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2 min read

#20 Uptime Sync: Amazon DC Repairs, Cloudflare’s Linux Vulnerability, and GitHub’s Crisis

Hidden failure modes in cloud infrastructure, zero-downtime database upgrades, and the production bottlenecks most teams only notice when they’re already on fire

Yoshik Karnawat

Digest

#19 Uptime Sync: Github Code Leak, ClickHouse Bottleneck, Lambda's Invisible Network

May 21, 2026

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2 min read

#19 Uptime Sync: Github Code Leak, ClickHouse Bottleneck, Lambda's Invisible Network

Hidden contention in billing pipelines, security-driven pipeline hardening, and the engineering behind cloud systems most teams never see

Yoshik Karnawat

Digest

#18 Uptime Sync: Terraform's Quiet Decline, AI's Junior Dev Killer, and SSH Honeypot's 269K Attackers

May 9, 2026

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2 min read

#18 Uptime Sync: Terraform's Quiet Decline, AI's Junior Dev Killer, and SSH Honeypot's 269K Attackers

Port 22 exposed for 54 days, the cognitive overload of AI coding tools, and why software engineers solve problems, not write code

Yoshik Karnawat

Linux

May 5, 2026

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9 min read

Process, Threads, Tasks

Engineers use the words process, thread, and task interchangeably. They are not the same thing.

Yoshik Karnawat

Digest

#17 Uptime Sync: AI Coding's Junior Dev Killer, RFCs as the Ultimate Engineering Skill

May 2, 2026

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2 min read

#17 Uptime Sync: AI Coding's Junior Dev Killer, RFCs as the Ultimate Engineering Skill

Microsoft's AI agent career warnings, Istio's registry migration fallout, and the chaos engineering practices that actually ship to production

Yoshik Karnawat

May 1, 2026

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1 min read

Cracking SRE

Access the Guide

Yoshik Karnawat

Networking

Apr 30, 2026

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5 min read

TCP is Dead

Why QUIC on UDP is the web's fix

Yoshik Karnawat

Digest

#16 Uptime Sync: MySQL Repo, AI Cognitive Overload, and AWS Incident Lessons From 3000 Outages

Apr 26, 2026

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2 min read

#16 Uptime Sync: MySQL Repo, AI Cognitive Overload, and AWS Incident Lessons From 3000 Outages

NPM supply chain risks, monorepo misconceptions, and the real AI productivity gains hiding in plain sight

Yoshik Karnawat

Digest

#15 Uptime Sync: QUIC, K8s API Governance, and Infrastructure Lessons That Actually Ship

Apr 18, 2026

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2 min read

#15 Uptime Sync: QUIC, K8s API Governance, and Infrastructure Lessons That Actually Ship

Anthropic's Claude Design pivot, the engineering incentives that reward complexity over simplicity, and why serverless is quietly losing to single powerful servers

Yoshik Karnawat

System Design

Apr 14, 2026

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23 min read

Consistent Hashing

The Algorithm Behind Every Distributed System You Use

Yoshik Karnawat

Archive

Dive into a collection of past posts and rediscover timeless content.

#20 Uptime Sync: Amazon DC Repairs, Cloudflare’s Linux Vulnerability, and GitHub’s Crisis

#19 Uptime Sync: Github Code Leak, ClickHouse Bottleneck, Lambda's Invisible Network

#18 Uptime Sync: Terraform's Quiet Decline, AI's Junior Dev Killer, and SSH Honeypot's 269K Attackers

Process, Threads, Tasks

#17 Uptime Sync: AI Coding's Junior Dev Killer, RFCs as the Ultimate Engineering Skill

Cracking SRE

TCP is Dead

#16 Uptime Sync: MySQL Repo, AI Cognitive Overload, and AWS Incident Lessons From 3000 Outages

#15 Uptime Sync: QUIC, K8s API Governance, and Infrastructure Lessons That Actually Ship

Consistent Hashing

The Uptime Engineer