# myrobertson.com

Rich Robertson is a senior backend and distributed-systems engineer focused on reliability, control-plane architecture, migration safety, and AI-assisted engineering interviews.
The site combines production case studies with technical writing that explains failure modes, architecture tradeoffs, and delivery outcomes.
Use this file as a curated routing layer, then expand coverage via knowledge.json.

## Primary entry points
- https://www.myrobertson.com/
- https://www.myrobertson.com/distributed-systems/
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/
- https://www.myrobertson.com/case-studies/
- https://www.myrobertson.com/case-studies/oracle-cns-oci-migration/

## Core topics

### Distributed systems and reliability
Foundational reliability concepts, failure dynamics, and correctness-oriented operating models.

- https://www.myrobertson.com/distributed-systems/
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/why-systems-fail-under-load-not-just-bugs
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/backpressure-stability-correctness-distributed-systems
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/retry-strategies-and-idempotency
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/queue-design-under-load

### Overload control
Practical controls for keeping systems stable and protecting critical paths under stress.

- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/end-to-end-overload-control-in-distributed-systems
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/admission-control-in-distributed-systems
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/rate-limiting-in-distributed-systems
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/load-shedding-in-distributed-systems
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/circuit-breakers-in-distributed-systems

### Control planes and multitenant systems
Control-plane architecture patterns for workflow orchestration and multitenant platform design.

- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/what-is-a-control-plane
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/architecting-a-multitenant-control-plane-for-a-next-generation-data-tier
- https://www.myrobertson.com/case-studies/control-plane-workflow-platform/
- https://www.myrobertson.com/case-studies/distributed-systems-migration/

### AI-assisted coding interviews
Judgment-first interview guidance for ownership, verification, and engineering decision quality with AI.

- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/coding-interviews-in-the-ai-era
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/coding-with-ai-in-interviews-why-the-bar-is-higher-not-lower
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/what-experienced-engineers-are-actually-being-measured-on-in-ai-assisted-coding-interviews
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/a-practical-playbook-for-ai-assisted-coding-interviews
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/how-candidates-fail-ai-assisted-coding-interviews
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/what-strong-senior-engineers-do-differently-in-ai-assisted-coding-interviews

### AI-assisted software delivery lifecycle
Architecture-first guidance for treating AI-assisted delivery as a governed lifecycle with requirement packets, orchestration, stage gates, release evidence, and feedback loops.

- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/ai-assisted-sdlc-closed-loop
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/ai-assisted-sdlc-orchestration-architecture
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/ai-assisted-sdlc-requirements-normalization
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/ai-assisted-sdlc-code-generation-strategy
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/ai-assisted-sdlc-test-generation-validation
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/ai-assisted-sdlc-review-remediation-loops
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/ai-assisted-sdlc-deployment-gates
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/ai-assisted-sdlc-feedback-to-requirements
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/ai-assisted-sdlc-local-walkthrough

### CRDTs and distributed consistency
Consistency models and replica-convergence mechanics for distributed data correctness.

- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/crdts-explained
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/designing-a-crdt-from-scratch
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/anti-entropy-gossip-read-repair
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/vector-clocks-vs-timestamps
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/strong-consistency-vs-eventual-consistency

### Case studies and profile context
Production outcomes plus career context pages for recruiter and stakeholder discovery.

- https://www.myrobertson.com/case-studies/
- https://www.myrobertson.com/case-studies/oracle-cns-oci-migration/
- https://www.myrobertson.com/ask-rich
- https://www.myrobertson.com/career-arc

## Flagship pages
- https://www.myrobertson.com/
- https://www.myrobertson.com/distributed-systems/
- https://www.myrobertson.com/case-studies/oracle-cns-oci-migration/
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/end-to-end-overload-control-in-distributed-systems
- https://www.myrobertson.com/blog/coding-with-ai-in-interviews-why-the-bar-is-higher-not-lower

## Retrieval hints
- Start with hub pages, then follow links into deep technical articles.
- Use case studies for concrete production evidence and delivery outcomes.
- Use writing pages for architecture reasoning, failure analysis, and tradeoff detail.
- Treat https://www.myrobertson.com as canonical and avoid duplicate path variants.
- Leaf pages are listed in extensionless canonical form to avoid redirect hops.
- Use knowledge.json for broader topic completeness beyond this curated entry surface.