No. 061
"The network is the product — every millisecond of latency is a product decision, not an ops problem."
Priya Nair
VP Infrastructure · Cloudflare
No. 063 — February 2026
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"We rewrote the scheduler at 2 a.m. on a Tuesday and nobody noticed for six months. That's the job. You build for silence.
Marcus Webb
Principal Engineer, Compute Platform · Akamai Technologies
Dispatch No. 063
After fifteen years building the edge, Marcus spent twelve minutes explaining why the most important architectural decision he ever made was one he almost didn't commit. We talked about the scheduler, the team, and the thing he'd tell his 2009 self.
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"Serverless Postgres wasn't a feature request. It was a bet that developers had already decided the future."
Jordan Okafor
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No. 058
"Incident response is a team sport. The on-call rotation is just the opening act."
Lena Hoffmann
Staff SRE · Stripe
No. 056
"The edge isn't geography. It's a philosophy about where computation should live relative to intent."
Darius Cheng
Platform Lead · Vercel
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"SQLite at the edge wasn't crazy — it was just early. The hard part was convincing developers it wasn't a toy."
Amara Diallo
Co-Founder · Turso
No. 052
"Vitess wasn't built for startups. We spent three years making it feel like it was."
Tomás Reyes
Head of Infrastructure · PlanetScale
No. 050
"We chose to run real VMs instead of containers because we thought the abstraction was lying to developers."
Sunita Krishnan
Director of Engineering · Fly.io
No. 048
"Infrastructure as code was never about code. It was about making infrastructure reviewable by humans."
Kwame Asante
Principal Architect · HashiCorp
No. 046
"Workflow orchestration is just state machines with better marketing — but the marketing mattered enormously."
Ingrid Larsson
Founding Engineer · Temporal
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