TIEN'S NOTESPERSONAL SYSTEM / REV. SEP 2026

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  1. The Modern Data Stack for Systems Engineers

    Systems & Reliability · 15 min

  2. The First 30 Minutes of a Production Incident

    Systems & Reliability · 12 min

  3. Reliable Large File Transfers: Integrity, Retries, Resumability, and Recovery

    Systems & Reliability · 11 min

ALL NOTES

  1. Systems Troubleshooting, But Only the Useful Stuff

    Systems & Reliability · 6 min

  2. Let the Chunk Tell You Where It Belongs

    Systems & Reliability · 5 min

  3. Getting Out of GitHub Actions: A Simple Migration to Jenkins

    Systems & Reliability · 8 min

  4. Stop Telling Engineers to Be Careful

    Systems & Reliability · 11 min

  5. Test the Failure Boundaries

    Systems & Reliability · 11 min

  6. What If ls Isn't There?

    Systems & Reliability · 5 min

  7. Networking, But Only the Useful Stuff

    Systems & Reliability · 10 min

  8. The Request Should Survive the Tool

    Systems & Reliability · 8 min

  9. Where Did the Spark Job Stop?

    Systems & Reliability · 7 min

  10. Your GitHub Workflow Is Not Your Build System

    Systems & Reliability · 9 min

  11. Vim: The 20 Keystrokes That Matter

    Systems & Reliability · 4 min

  12. A Quiet Farewell to Bioinformatics

    Essays · 11 min