Alejandro Falkowski

Software leadership, reliable systems, and product delivery. I focus on building reliable, high-performing systems and teams.

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A Platform Should Extend Without Forking Itself https://t.co/rBqou43iNf

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A Monorepo Is Not One System https://t.co/iOWR7Etwa2

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Platform Boundaries Let Teams Own the Right Things https://t.co/NNLWHBY9jo

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A Platform Mission Should Make Work Uneventful https://t.co/vL9yH85E59

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Deleting Work Should Feel Like Progress https://t.co/7hMhdCHabA

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Feature Flags Are Dynamic Dead Code https://t.co/jTqIv96S12

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A Backlog Is Not a Strategy https://t.co/sVk4voXim0

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Not Building Is Also Product Work https://t.co/Pc4SJuNUAR

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The Customer Went Missing From Agile https://t.co/IkJntdnWjW

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Planning Was Never the Enemy https://t.co/qmgn0Hv14C

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Agile Became a Ritual System https://t.co/kDdgyyrbSl

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Goals Are Useless If You Do Not Learn From Them https://t.co/DgcKajkT62

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Performance Starts Where the Abstraction Gets Thin https://t.co/E1DVEFbjZs

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Not Every Goal Needs the Same Shape https://t.co/z0arxuXo7m

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A Goal Should Change a Decision https://t.co/5KRecojvzL

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Evidence Gates Keep Ambition Honest https://t.co/rmE5iUBuUk

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Stack, Heap, and the Cost of Allocation https://t.co/boXx14KSGP

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Do Not Design for Users You Have Not Earned Yet https://t.co/gIIh2nfMSf

[Jesús Espino @jespinog]

The first guest post on Internals for Interns is live! 🎉

@func25 wrote "mmap vs pread in a real Go storage engine", a deep dive into how VictoriaLogs decides how to read bytes from files. It sounds too low-level to matter, until you do the math.

I don't want to give any spoilers, so I'll just say this: it's a great story about mechanical sympathy, understanding how Linux memory management works, how the Go scheduler works, and how a seemingly simple question can sometimes have a far more nuanced answer than you'd expect.

You can read it here: https://t.co/FRSpzzrvWs

#Go

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Think Big, Start Narrow https://t.co/l6kTGArTwo