About exashard
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exashard exists to be the publication a distinguished engineer bookmarks: production-proven writing on distributed systems, Kubernetes, microservices, and the architecture that carries software from one million to one billion users. Not tutorials. Not regurgitated documentation. Real engineering judgment, earned by building and operating systems at scale.
Who writes this
exashard is written by Colson, founder of ColsonSuperApps LLC and Syrosin LLC, and the architect of TYPEMUSE — a competitive multiplayer platform built as 95 microservices across six languages (Go, Rust, Java, Python, Elixir, and Scala) running on Kubernetes with Bazel, gRPC, and Kafka.
That platform is the source of everything written here. When a post talks about the cost of consensus, the failure modes of stateful workloads, or the governance discipline a polyglot mesh demands, it comes from having run those systems — not from paraphrasing a paper.
What exashard stands for
- Real over theoretical. War stories, postmortems, tradeoff tables, and capacity math — grounded in production.
- Tradeoffs over dogma. Every architecture has a bill. We always name the cost, not just the benefit.
- Depth over volume. One genuinely excellent analysis beats ten thin posts. Quality is the moat.
- Honesty. We flag what we don’t know and what didn’t work. We never invent benchmark numbers.
Editorial independence
exashard is reader-first. Some articles contain affiliate links to tools we would actually run in production, and the site carries advertising — both are clearly disclosed and never determine editorial conclusions. See our Editorial Standards and Disclaimer.
Topics
We publish across five disciplines: Distributed Systems, Kubernetes, Microservices, System Design, and Engineering Strategy.
Get in touch
Questions, corrections, or speaking inquiries: support@colsonsuperapps.com.
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