The most important purpose of a post-incident review is to learn from incidents and improve the system. The "5 Whys" technique, while intuitive and easy to explain, may have limitations in facilitating meaningful learning from incidents. Open-ended questions in post-incident reviews can lead to rich..

Optimistic lockinglaughs in the face of traditional locking's sluggishness. It just checks that data remains unchanged before a write—dodging deadlocks and ditching lock overhead like yesterday’s news. Meanwhile,sequential version numbersdeliver the knockout punch totimestampswhen it comes to mainta..

MCP (Model Context Protocol)is shimmying its way into the center stage as the go-to AI communication layer. It’s ditching local servers for cloud-hosted, multi-tenant ones. But the transition isn’t all smooth sailing. It’s wrestling with ever-shifting specs. Right now, remote servers only handleSSE ..