protocol notes

an occasional series of annotated deep-dives into the protocols we all depend on and rarely read — raft, quic, mvcc, dns.

writing

Mono listings

why

i read specifications the way other people read novels, and at some point the margin notes wanted a home. each piece walks one protocol end to end: what the paper promises, what implementations actually do, and where the two disagree.

notes

  • eleven essays so far; the raft one gets rediscovered on aggregator sites roughly twice a year
  • every claim links to a line of source or a page of spec — no vibes
  • reading time is honest and long. these are for the second coffee

conference-adjacent: two of these turned into talks, one turned into a very long hallway conversation.