Joshua A. Sorrell
Principal distributed systems engineer focused on operability-first architecture, resilience, and safe recovery (also known as Josh Sorrell / J. Sorrell).
Joshua A. Sorrell (Josh Sorrell / J. Sorrell) is a principal-level distributed systems engineer focused on operability-first architectures, resilient event-driven workflows, and safe recovery in large-scale systems.
At a glance
- Focus: operability, resilience, observability, safe replay
- Typical systems: event-driven control planes, workflow orchestration, streaming/data pipelines
- Core concerns: bounded retries, backpressure, idempotency, DLQs, diagnosable failure modes
In practice, that means pragmatic reliability guardrails: retry classification, bounded backpressure, idempotency for side effects, and recovery runbooks that make replay safe. He also cares about low-noise telemetry—clear signals for incident response and postmortems—and writes about these topics while building open-source tools in this space.
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