Alex Rivas

Alex is a former Senior Systems Architect at Netflix and Stripe with over 15 years of experience building high-throughput, globally distributed APIs. He founded The Byte 404 to create a high-fidelity technical resource for modern back-end engineers. When he's not writing, Alex contributes to open-source database drivers and mentors junior developers. Specialties: Systems Architecture, Distributed Systems, Node.js, Go.