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Dispatch — field notes from Marcus Adeyemi-Larson Issue 31 · Stockholm / Lagos · Aug 2026

Staff Engineer · Distributed Systems

Ten years of shipping the hard parts.

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.

Marcus Adeyemi-Larson
Issue 31 · FeatureJul 2026 · 16 min

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 engineering · distributed systems · leadership

Issue 28 · Field reportMar 2026 · 12 min

Postmortem culture, from the outside looking in

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.

Culture · reliability

Issue 24 · CraftNov 2025 · 10 min

Two countries, one code review

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.

Remote work · craft

Building something that needs to hold up at 3 a.m.?

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