In a truly composable design system, components don’t just exist; they interact. Declarative thinking isn’t just about syntax. It’s about making your system legible at every layer.

💡 Next time you’re composing a view, ask:
Are these components composable because they’re declarative?
If not, what assumptions are breaking that chain?

https://medium.com/design-systems-mindset/design-systems-are-declarative-systems-and-your-workflow-should-be-too-71e02158ad05?sk=377a4a3b2563d90252eb1ba872a352b5

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Decomposing Transactional Systems

https://transactional.blog/blog/2025-decomposing-transactional-systems

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Recently, while working on a workshop titled Testing Your Pull Request on #Kubernetes with GKE, and GitHub Actions, I faced twice the same issue: service A needs service B, but service A starts faster than service B, and the system fails. In this post, I want to describe the context of these issues and how I solved them both with the same tool.

#waiting #systemdesign #systemarchitecture

https://blog.frankel.ch/subtle-art-waiting/

A reflective take on how modern systems—from social media to certifications—reward surface-level wins over deep effort. This post explores how we’ve learned to game metrics, optimize for the minimum, and lose sight of meaning in the process. It asks: what happens when the game replaces the goal?

https://blog.anantshri.info/weve-all-learned-to-game-it/

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What is Systems Engineering?

Understand the interdisciplinary approach that focuses on designing, integrating, and managing complex systems over their life cycles.
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🎛️ What is Control System Engineering?
Discover how engineers design systems to control devices and processes efficiently.

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Intelligent people aren't blessed.
They're cursed with clarity.

While others blissfully regurgitate third-hand opinions over coffee machines, the intelligent sit silently. Watching your house of cards collapse in slow motion. They see every missing piece, every shortcut, every "good enough" buried under "we don't do perfection".

You call it overthinking, as you can't catch up.
They call it surviving the inevitable chaos you refuse to see.

They usually don't talk much.
Not because they're shy,
but because your noise hurts their logic.

You hired them to solve problems.
So let them finish.
Don't micromanage the mechanic fixing your brakes at 200km/h.

Give them space.
And watch them quietly drag your company into a future
you're not even equipped to imagine.

Painful brilliance produces systems that don't scream at 3am.
Let them work.

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Your logs are lying to you - metrics are meaner and better.

Everyone loves logs… until the incident postmortem reads like bad fan fiction.
Most teams start with expensive log aggregation, full-text searching their way into oblivion. So much noise. So little signal. And still, no clue what actually happened. Why? Because writing meaningful logs is a lost art.
Logs are like candles, nice for mood lighting, useless in a house fire.

If you need traces to understand your system, congratulations: you're already in hell.

Let me introduce my favourite method: real-time, metric-driven user simulation aka "Overwatch".

Here's how you do it:

🧪 Set up a service that runs real end-to-end user workflows 24/7. Use Cypress, Playwright, Selenium… your poison of choice.
📊 Every action creates a timed metric tagged with the user workflow and action.
🧠 Now you know exactly what a user did before everything went up in flames.

Use Grafana + InfluxDB (or other tools you already use) to build dashboards that actually tell stories:

* How fast are user workflows?
* Which steps are breaking, and how often?
* What's slower today than yesterday?
* Who's affected, and where?

🎯 Alerts now mean something.
🚨 Incidents become surgical strikes, not scavenger hunts.
⚙️ Bonus: run the same system on every test environment and detect regressions before deployment. And if you made it reusable, you can even run the service to do load tests.

No need to buy overpriced tools. Just build a small service like you already do, except this one might save your soul.

And yes, transform logs into metrics where possible. Just hash your PII data and move on.

Stop guessing. Start observing.
Metrics > Logs. Always.

#Observability #MetricsOverLogs #DevOps #SRE #IncidentResponse #RealUserMonitoring #Telemetry #Grafana #InfluxDB #Automation #Cypress #Playwright #Selenium #DashboardsThatMatter #BurnYourLogs #MonitoringMadness #SystemDesign #PostmortemPoetry

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🛠️ Learn what crucial elements must be considered while designing efficient agricultural systems.
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