#reliability
10 episodes
#2989: Why Trains Crash When They Can't Steer
Stopping a train takes miles. Seeing an obstacle takes seconds. That gap explains everything.
#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: The Surprising Family Tree 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: Why Your Smart Bulbs Fail and Airports Don't
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.