Hi, I'm Alex Rivera.
I have a PhD in distributed systems, write software for a living, bake more sourdough than any one household needs, and put both halves of that life on YouTube as Byte & Batter.
Writing
Notes where code and baking cross paths more often than you'd expect.
What Sourdough Taught Me About Race Conditions
·Alex Rivera
Fermentation and concurrent systems have more in common than you'd think — both punish you for assuming things happen in order.
BakingDistributed Systems
Filming a Video Essay on Paxos (and Why It Took Six Weeks)
·Alex Rivera
Notes from turning a dense distributed-systems paper into a 22-minute video without losing the parts that actually matter.
YouTubeDistributed SystemsTeaching
Baker's Percentage Is Just a Ratio, and Ratios Are Just Code
·Alex Rivera
How thinking like a programmer made me a better baker, and vice versa — a look at building Crumb.
BakingTypeScriptProjects
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