#reliability
9 episodes
#2687: When Pre-Flight Checks Help (or Hurt) Agentic AI Plugins
How to decide when a pre-flight check is worth the latency cost — and how to write good ones.
#2578: Building Deliberately Slow Deployment Pipelines
How to build CI/CD pipelines designed as filters, not firehoses — with manual gates, staging environments, and quality checks.
#2550: Idempotent Pipelines: Checkpoints, Manifests & Safe Re-Runs
How to design scripts and pipelines so re-running them is safe, even after a crash mid-execution.
#2506: Squashing Database Migrations Without Breaking Production
How to safely squash old migrations, cut deploy times, and generate schema documentation at version boundaries.
#1985: AI Tutors vs. Human Error: Who Do You Trust?
AI gets flak for hallucinations, but humans misremember 40% of facts. Why the double standard?
#1944: PostgreSQL: The Thirty-Year Miracle
How does a volunteer-run database power the New York Stock Exchange and survive every tech trend without burning out?
#729: Kernels and Cousins: The DNA of Modern Operating Systems
Why does Linux rule servers while Windows dominates the desktop? Explore the architectural DNA and kernel designs of the world's most popular OSs.
#112: Industrial Strength: Why Airports Don’t Use Smart Bulbs
Why do airports stay lit while your smart home fails? Herman and Corn dive into industrial-grade tech and the physics of beaming internet.
#80: Why Your Smart Home Isn't an Airport: Industrial Reliability
Why can't you run the Louvre on a Raspberry Pi? Herman and Corn dive into the rugged, wired world of industrial building automation.