Deng Xiewei
Personal field notes

Notes from a small engineering lab.

A static journal for systems work, quiet experiments, books, travel fragments, and the occasional hard-won operational lesson.

Latest entries

2026.06.20

Keeping fallback services boring

Small infrastructure pieces should be inspectable at a glance. A local-only HTTP page is often enough to make edge services predictable.

2026.05.28

What I log before changing production

A checklist for collecting evidence first: process status, listeners, configuration shape, recent journal lines, and the smallest reversible edit.

2026.04.12

A weekend with old notebooks

Notes on turning paper sketches into durable references without making the archive feel heavier than the original habit.