Latency Is Not Throughput
Two numbers engineers conflate every day, and a small machine for telling them apart.
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On Systems Under Pressure
Darcy Thomas · 2026 · 2 posts · 14 min
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02 —A Small Machine for Belief
On the difference between holding an idea and being held by it.
Pieces about how complex systems — software and otherwise — actually behave when you start pushing them.
A loose collection of essays on systems under load — software, belief, attention. The thread is what happens at the edges, not the average case.