Systems Saturday

A monthly post about computer systems. No bar for entry, everyone can learn something.

By Ashish Jayamohan

· Launched 10 months ago

Systems Saturday 22: Kubernetes Autoscaling

Scale pods, nodes, and costs like a pro

Recent posts

• Systems Saturday 21: Napkin Math
  Building distributed systems intuition through estimation
  Feb 8 • Ashish Jayamohan

• Systems Saturday 20: ZooKeeper
  The backbone of distributed coordination
  Jan 3 • Ashish Jayamohan

• Systems Saturday 19: Query Optimizers
  Reducing sequential scans through clever techniques
  Dec 27, 2025 • Ashish Jayamohan

• Systems Saturday 18: An Introduction to Distributed Training
  How modern ML scales (from someone who learned about it this week)
  Dec 13, 2025 • Ashish Jayamohan

• Systems Saturday 17: Amdahl's Law
  A systems engineer's favorite and least favorite rule
  Dec 6, 2025 • Ashish Jayamohan

• Systems Saturday 16: Thanksgiving
  A simple post about simpler things
  Nov 29, 2025 • Ashish Jayamohan

• Systems Saturday 15: This Week's Cloudflare Outage
  A brief overview of the outage that nearly everyone knew about
  Nov 22, 2025 • Ashish Jayamohan

• Systems Saturday 14: Race Conditions
  Some better methods to identify them than "vibes"
  Nov 15, 2025 • Ashish Jayamohan

• Systems Saturday 13: Helm
  Fighting YAML abstractions is a losing game
  Nov 8, 2025 • Ashish Jayamohan

• Systems Saturday 12: Apache Doris
  The art of unified data systems
  Nov 1, 2025 • Ashish Jayamohan

• Systems Saturday 11: Building Resilient APIs
  Designing interfaces that don’t break under pressure
  Oct 25, 2025 • Ashish Jayamohan

• Systems Saturday 10: Cloud Costs Are Out of Control
  Diagnosing and controlling hidden infra spend
  Oct 18, 2025 • Ashish Jayamohan