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How we build Nazexa — architecture, trade-offs and postmortems.

How we build Nazexa: architecture, trade-offs, benchmarks and the postmortems we would rather not have written.

Recent posts

Deep dive

Rewriting the isolate scheduler

How we cut cold starts from 19 ms to 11 ms by changing when we pre-warm rather than how much we pre-warm.

8 Aug 2026 · 14 min
Postmortem

The 41-minute EU-West degradation

A metadata cache stampede, why our circuit breaker did not fire, and the three changes we shipped afterwards.

22 Jul 2026 · 11 min
Benchmark

Copy-on-write branching at 500 GB

Reproducible methodology, published harness, and an honest look at where our numbers get worse.

9 Jul 2026 · 9 min
Deep dive

Consistency without ceremony

How multi-region writes pick a conflict strategy, and why we refused to make it the default.

27 Jun 2026 · 16 min

Our writing rules

We publish the methodology alongside every benchmark, including the hardware, the dataset and the harness, so anyone can reproduce or refute the result.

Postmortems name the failure, not the person. They include the timeline, the customer impact in real units, and the specific changes with links to the pull requests that made them.

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