1+ week, 4+ day ago  (335+ words) The first time I heard "optimize for latency," I thought it meant "make it fast." So I turned off batching, flushed writes immediately, set Kafka's linger. ms to 0. The system responded faster. And handled way less load. Latency and throughput…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (984+ words) My database was running at 0. 8% CPU utilisation. I discovered this three months after going live, while investigating why our GCP bill seemed higher than expected for our traffic volume. The number was so low I thought there was an error…...