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Whenever I mention "monitoring and observability" I immediately have to explain what I mean and how the two are different.

A production file-upload incident returned HAProxy 502 errors while ingress-nginx, APISIX, and application logs stayed empty. H

The whole thing started with one plain, annoying question: how do we get real metrics out of nginx?

Learn why replacing Go MPSC channels with a database-backed queue made a GitHub workflow automation tool resilient to crashes, retries, and failures.

SRE at Apple writing about AI infrastructure, Kubernetes, and cloud reliability.Real production experience. Building tools & community at AI/DevOps intersection

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A practical look at Git mirrors, second remotes, LFS checks, CI recovery, and why backup policies need restore tests.

Container images, not source code, are what ships to production. Here's why Docker made images the real supply chain trust boundary.

Discover how OCI containers, Windows 11 native containerization, and macOS support cement Linux as the universal platform powering modern software.

Learn how to build a highly available AWS architecture using Terraform. Discover best practices, infrastructure components, Terraform modules, and deployment

Mounting Docker socket into an MCP server risked full host compromise; splitting into a locked-down server plus scoped sidecar fixed it.

Most GPU cloud comparisons stop at dollars-per-GPU-hour, which is only half the bill. Pricing one identical inference workload (1 GPU, 24/7, 30 TB/month egress)

A penetration test revealed that patched golden container images don't protect production unless every dependent workload is rebuilt and redeployed. This articl

We spent six months and four engineers building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) using Backstage to reduce cognitive load. Three months after launch, 80% of

Security and development teams often clash because they're measured against different goals, not because either side is wrong. This article explores the structu

A pre-audit check found rotated AWS keys buried in a Docker layer, revealing root containers, a dangerous socket mount, and real fixes that matter.

A payment notification service on our EKS cluster failed silently for 47 minutes — PagerDuty never fired, Loki never alerted, we found out from a customer tweet

Modern CI/CD pipelines are no longer passive delivery systems — they’ve become high-value attack surfaces where trust assumptions are routinely exploited. Incid

I built a daily job alert pipeline that runs entirely on GitHub Actions, using a JSON file committed back to the repo as the database. This post covers the stat

If your users are inside mainland China, the standard region-routing tricks fall apart. IP geolocation is unreliable behind the Great Firewall, so instead of gu

Most Kubernetes observability failures aren't caused by a lack of data but by a lack of shared context between metrics, logs, traces, and infrastructure events.

Switch shut down unexpectedly. Power cycle fixed it. Logs showed CPU hit 66°C which is the real shutdown threshold. Platform output shows 104°C as critical. Tha

The 5G Base Station Configuration Validator automates the validation of base station configurations against 3GPP and regional requirements to reduce deployment

Kubernetes already "self-heals": it restarts what crashes. Those are reflexes, not judgment. This article walks through the architecture of a self-healing ingre