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David Costa
~/backend-engineer
I work on distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, with a focus on reliability and throughput. I write here about system design, the trade-offs behind it, and what running these systems in production actually teaches you.
- //now
- helping improve Brazil's public transport system
- //building
- jobsteady, a durable job queue for .NET on plain Postgres
- //games
- goblin with socks, the studio where my games live
Blog
- The read replica your code doesn't know about
- Boring Technology Wins
- Knowing When to Let a Project Die
- My Mental Model for Writing Simpler Backend Systems
- Local Backup with rsync and bash
Stack
.net
node.js
postgresql
docker
terraform
aws
azure
redis
rabbitmq
jest
k6