What a decade in distributed systems actually changed
The tools rotated five times. The failure modes didn’t move at all. A decade in review — what I believed at each stage, and what I believed when I was wrong.
Staff Engineer · Distributed Systems
Currently: Nordbank · Remote (Stockholm hub)
I work on the systems where latency budgets are measured in microseconds and mistakes are measured in customers. This site is my running log — career, craft, and the occasional dispatch worth keeping.

The tools rotated five times. The failure modes didn’t move at all. A decade in review — what I believed at each stage, and what I believed when I was wrong.
Nordbank does blameless postmortems the way other companies do fire drills: on a schedule, in public, with real consequences for the process. Notes from a staff engineer who reads all of them.
Working a Lagos-based team out of a Stockholm office changed how I review code. The difference wasn’t the code. It was the clock.
Dispatch · Issue 31 · Stockholm / Lagos · RSS · GitHub · LinkedIn · updated August 2026