DevOps & Cloud Reads

A new reliability report just analyzed 178,000 real production incidents and broke them down by root cause. Code defects topped the list… Continue reading on Me

Your PHP app’s liveness probe is probably wrong. It’s restarting containers when DB has a blip. Correct pattern with verified code. Continue reading on Medium »

Renewal is the quiet moment when cloud bills and downtime surprises happen. Your instance term is about to expire, the renewal price looks… Continue reading on

A few weeks ago I built an Azure VM with Terraform from my laptop. It worked, but I still had to SSH...

Learn how to use Docker multi-stage builds to shrink your image sizes, speed up CI/CD pipelines, and improve your container security posture.

MCP tool descriptions are re-fetched on every connection and nothing pins them. A server can behave correctly during review and change afterwards.

The project was archived in March 2026. If it’s still terminating your production TLS, here is the exact path off it. The YAML, the… Continue reading on Medium

Even with prior Linux experience, going back to the basics in a structured environment is one of the best ways to sharpen your mental… Continue reading on Mediu

Terraform + AWS/EKS + Docker + Git + Jenkins | Simple Concepts | Production Scenarios | Commands/YAML | Candidate-Style Answers Continue reading on Medium »

I just found a solution to one of the major issues I usually face! Continue reading on Medium »

Build and Deploy Relay on AWS EKS with Production-Shaped DevOps Architecture Continue reading on Medium »

Friday night I almost let a sidecar rewrite CHANGELOG.md. The free model invented a version we never shipped. Would you catch that before a sleepy git push? I w

Distributed traces tell you a request took 800 milliseconds. Metrics tell you p99 latency has increased by 40%. Logs tell you there was a… Continue reading on D

A production outage is one of those situations where knowing a long list of DevOps tools doesn’t necessarily help. Continue reading on Medium »

By Aramide Owokoya, Senior Cloud Architect & Charlotte Hernandez-Velez , AWS Cloud Engineer at Elluminates Software Corporation Continue reading on futureengine

I’ve been on both sides of the infrastructure interview table. Continue reading on Medium »

Backup and recovery is the most important thing that nobody thinks about until it fails. Continue reading on Medium »

You added an MCP server to your config, restarted the app, and one of these happened: Nothing showed up at all. The server showed up and then died with MCP erro

When a shared dependency slows down, every retry becomes another claim on its remaining capacity. GitHub’s August incident shows why… Continue reading on Medium

In my previous article I explained how to persist a running container and pack it according to the OCI layout to keep it ready to ship. Continue reading on Medi

Runbooks do not decay evenly. Continue reading on Medium »

The merge gate never inspected the actual patch diff. It scored the agent transcript as success evidence. Green prose hid a schema-widening contract change. Thi

More observability gave us more data, but not necessarily more answers. Continue reading on Medium »

Monitoring dozens — or thousands — of servers, applications, and network devices can quickly become complicated. Continue reading on Medium »