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Daniel H Fong

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The Database Connection Setting That Silently Throttles Your Writes

Sep 5, 2026 · 8 min read
couchdbdatabasenetworkinglinuxsite reliability engineering
Diagram of a TCP receive buffer showing the receive window and buffered data

Part 3 of the Scaling CouchDB to 1 Million Requests Per Minute series - A config line about connection counts pinned our TCP receive window to 8,192 bytes, turning a single write into thousands of round trips.

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AWS VPC CNI Was Holding 71% of Our Subnet IPs Hostage

Jun 13, 2026 · 9 min read
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AWS VPC CNI

One of our production subnets sat at 99% IP utilization. The IPs were there, just held hostage by the VPC CNI's defaults.

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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
couchdbdatabasesite reliability engineeringlinux
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A post where I detail the different challenges I've faced while scaling CouchDB.

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