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Daniel H Fong

Notes on software, systems, and life.

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The 64 KiB Pipe That Killed Our Database

Jun 7, 2026 · 10 min read
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Part 2 of the Scaling CouchDB to 1 Million Requests Per Minute series - The story of how a 64 KiB pipe between CouchDB and containerd led to OOM a production node.

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When Your GitOps Monorepo Starts Fighting Argo CD

May 30, 2026 · 4 min read
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The Argo CD scaling problem we only noticed after 2,000+ Applications started sharing the same GitOps monorepo.

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Scaling CouchDB to 1 Million Requests Per Minute (Part 1)

Apr 22, 2026 · 4 min read
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A post where I detail the different challenges I've faced while scaling CouchDB.

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Two Types of People

Apr 11, 2026 · 4 min read
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It doesn't matter which type of person you are. What matters is whether you have faith in yourself.

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