DevOps & Cloud

The Problem We Were Actually Solving Our treasure hunt engine had worked well for a small audience, but when we hit a growth inflection point, it became clear t

The Problem We Were Actually Solving To be honest, we didn't really have a clear understanding of what we were trying to solve. We knew our server was getting s

The Problem We Were Actually Solving We had just launched a new live scoring feature for...

Some of the codes are given below. The non user of Linux can avoid this read. Continue reading on Medium »

This article covers AWS DevOps Agent — the ops-focused autonomous incident agent. Continue reading on Medium »

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I’ve been running a homelab for about 10 years now. I like the convenience of public clouds, but I don’t trust relying entirely on some… Continue reading on Med

What if your monitor didn't just fire an alert — it also investigated the issue and delivered a diagnosis before you even reached your keyboard? That's what Inv

Last night the build was clean. This morning, five red errors before the coffee was even warm. git...

I’m not new to Kubernetes. Certified my way through most of what the CNCF has to offer. And yet this specific setup, a proper local… Continue reading on Medium

The Problem We Were Actually Solving At the early stages of our deployment, we focused on...

Every serious infrastructure investment goes into redundant hardware, distributed systems, and...

Managing storage that is glued to your compute nodes makes scaling a nightmare. We found that LVM...

Declarative delivery is great. Production incidents do not give rats ass about your philosophy. Continue reading on Medium »

“Frontend + Backend” is no longer enough to call yourself full-stack. Continue reading on Medium »

Background jobs die quietly. Heartbeat monitoring is the pattern that catches them - how it works, why inverted checks beat ping monitors for scheduled tasks, a

A post-mortem on a cert expiry outage that an uptime monitor marked green for four hours. What Let's Encrypt auto-renewal actually fails on, and how to properly

JavaScript failures, CDN stale cache, hydration errors, visual regressions, and silent cron deaths - the production incidents that return HTTP 200 and fool your

Most uptime monitors work by making an HTTP request and checking the response code. It's fast, cheap,...

One of the first things engineers learn in Kubernetes is: Continue reading on Medium »

I asked myself this question seriously for the first time while staring at a Kubernetes node utilisation dashboard at eleven o’clock on a… Continue reading on M

Most DevOps roadmaps on the internet are outdated. The courses are old, the tool recommendations are stale, and nobody tells you which… Continue reading on Medi

The Microsoft team that built the Azure SRE Agent published something in January that I keep coming...

There are few things more frustrating in infrastructure debugging than a problem that makes absolutely no sense. Continue reading on Medium »

Managing an enterprise network infrastructure requires absolute visibility. When you are responsible for monitoring hundreds of switches… Continue reading on Me

NIS2 Article 21 in Azure: Implementing Network Security Controls with Terraform Tags: terraform,...

It's 2am. Production is on fire. Someone in the war room asks, "what did the VPC actually look like...

Veriyle aram hep iyiydi. Ama ürünü gerçek dünyaya çıkarma sırası gelince, hiç bilmediğim bir dünyayla karşılaştım: container’lar, portlar… Continue reading on M

If you've been building on Midnight or want to participate in the network without trusting...

HashiCorp built an MCP server for writing Terraform. I built one for reviewing it. A few...

rex detects your project stack and runs the right command. Zero config. One binary. 12 ecosystems.

Most automation projects start small. Continue reading on Medium »

A hands on walkthrough of building a production-ready load-balanced infrastructure from scratch Continue reading on Medium »

The problem When a port is already in use, developers have to chain together lsof, grep,...

What is Linux System Administration? Continue reading on Medium »

Terraform 1.15 is not a single-headline release. It ships six distinct features that collectively solve problems engineers have complained… Continue reading on

When you spin up a fresh Ubuntu server, it comes insecure by default. Root login is enabled. SSH accepts passwords. There is no firewall… Continue reading on Me

It is an experience every software engineer knows all too well: you make a completely unrelated minor enhancement, trigger a standard… Continue reading on Mediu

The Problem We Were Actually Solving Our initial approach was to use PayPal as the primary...

The classic terraform import command mutates state with no preview and handles one resource at a time. Here is how config-driven import blocks, generated config

I’ll be honest. For a long time, my mental model of Docker was: it’s packaging. Continue reading on Medium »

I’ll be honest. For a long time, my mental model of Docker was: it’s packaging. Continue reading on Medium »

Writing Dockerfiles is one of the first skills every DevOps engineer learns. Continue reading on Medium »

For the longest time, all my projects lived on localhost. Every side project I built stayed trapped...

It's not a brag for me to say "I've been visualizing infrastructure since 2018" - it's the actual...

It was 11:47 PM on a Thursday when the Slack messages started rolling in. "Hey, the checkout page...

by the AI that did it I'm Brian. I'm 63. I've been writing software since 1980 — Fortran...

Every dead end, every traceback, every fix — from zero to a working Telegram notification system for Cloudflare R2 Continue reading on Medium »