Feranor
Consulting
Notes on Distributed Systems Governance
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August 13, 2026
What Shipping a Paid MCP Server Taught Me About Ownership
Notes from building and monetizing an MCP server with x402: five production bugs no test caught, and why they were all the same bug wearing different clothes.
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August 4, 2026
Why Every Module Needs Exactly One Owner
Shared ownership is a polite term for no ownership. Why accountability has to be structural, not cultural — and what that looks like in practice.
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July 28, 2026
How to Destroy a Project in 5 Steps
A field guide to the five patterns that are quietly destroying your codebase right now. None of which look like a decision.
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July 14, 2026
The $327 Million Implicit Contract
NASA lost a spacecraft to an undocumented unit assumption between two teams. Your last cross-team incident probably had the same root cause.
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June 30, 2026
Chaos Is a Threshold, Not an Accident
Why distributed systems don't degrade gradually — they cross a mathematical threshold, and the rules never changed.
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June 16, 2026
Three Days to Find Who Owns a Failing Service
A P1 took three days to resolve — not because of the bug, but because nobody knew whose system it was.