SUPREME INFORMATICS

Talks + Writing

Writing

Push to Prod

Newsletter, ongoing

Battle-tested insights from building critical systems at Netflix, Twitter, and Comcast – edge routing, personalization infrastructure, and analytics serving millions in production.

Push to Prod or Die Trying: High-Scale Systems, Production Incidents, and Big Tech Chaos

Book, 2025 (early access)

A practical guide to building and operating large scale software systems, informed by lessons learned from working at Netflix, Twitter, and Comcast.

What is Good Software Architecture?

Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter, 2025

Exploring architecture as explicit trades as opposed to the overly cerebral concept of “tradeoffs”. Also discussed characteristics of good and bad software architecture.

Outages Are Coming For You

LeadDev, 2021

Why outages are inevitable and how to prepare your team and systems to handle them gracefully.

Talks

Putting Power into Practice as a Staff+ Engineer

LeadDev West Coast Conference, October 2023

How staff+ engineers can leverage their influence and expertise to drive meaningful change across an organization.

Concurrency War Stories

Internal talk, April 2021

Real-world tales of concurrency bugs, race conditions, and the hard lessons learned debugging them.

Risky Business: Taking Risks in Production

LeadDev Live Conference, April 2020

A framework for thinking about risk in production systems and making informed decisions about when to take them.