The explorer's journal
Field Notes
Papers read, systems built, lessons pinned down before they escape. Diagrams drawn by hand, by firelight.
Field Note 003: The rocket company that bought more servers than satellites
SpaceX crossed $2 trillion on its first day of trading and had to open its books for the first time in 24 years. The most surprising number in the prospectus has nothing to do with rockets.
Field Note 002: One chat reply, two computers
Modern LLM serving splits your prompt and the model's reply onto different GPU clusters — and turns the KV cache into a distributed storage tier. The old caching lessons are back.
Field Note 001: Why I keep a journal
What this journal is: notes from reading papers and building systems — distributed systems, streaming pipelines, and the occasional detour.