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Field notes on building this platform — the clustering, the stress tests, the failures and fixes. Read them all →

• Making the data tier a real cluster: Galera, Redis, and one routed networkSeptember 3, 2026
  For a while, this “cluster” had a dirty secret. The web tier was genuinely three nodes — three copies of WordPress and Nginx, load-balanced, any of which could… Read more: Making the data tier a real cluster: Galera, Redis, and one routed network
• Stress test, in detail: where the cluster actually breaksSeptember 2, 2026
  We already told the story of pushing this cluster until it bent. This is the follow-up with the receipts: a fresh, methodical stress test where we turned the… Read more: Stress test, in detail: where the cluster actually breaks
• When a node dies: failover, circuit-breakers, and self-healingSeptember 2, 2026
  Here is the question every “highly available” system should have to answer out loud: what actually happens when a machine dies? Not in a diagram — in reality,… Read more: When a node dies: failover, circuit-breakers, and self-healing
• Features forged by dogfoodingSeptember 2, 2026
  There’s a real difference — wider than most people expect — between software that passes its tests and software that has actually been used. The first kind is… Read more: Features forged by dogfooding
• 22 rounds of reviewSeptember 2, 2026
  Writing the code is just the first draft. I know that’s a slightly deflating thing to hear if you’ve just spent a week getting something to compile and… Read more: 22 rounds of review
• Three months, 395 commits: how ocifbsd was builtSeptember 2, 2026
  ocifbsd did not descend from the clouds fully formed. Nothing worth using ever does. It was built the way real software is always built — through a great… Read more: Three months, 395 commits: how ocifbsd was built