DevOps Engineer
376 articles published
The rebase-vs-merge fight is mostly people talking past each other. Here's the rule we actually follow, and the one time it saved a release.
A practitioner's guide to picking the right LLM API for coding, long docs, cheap extraction, reasoning, vision, voice, and on-device work.
A team was burning 40,000 CI minutes a month and could not say why. Here is how GitHub Actions billing actually works and where the money leaks.
New Relic's pricing swings and feature gaps push teams to shop around. Here's a field-tested look at seven alternatives, who each one fits, and how to move.
Three Git commands that all "undo" things, and picking the wrong one on a shared branch is how you ruin a teammate's afternoon. Here's how to keep them straight.
A bloated build context slows every build, wrecks your cache, and quietly leaks secrets into images. Here's how to keep it lean.
Static keys leak and live forever. Short-lived credentials from STS and Vault expire on their own — here's the token-exchange machinery and the TTL math that make it work.
Spot cuts compute bills by 60-90%, but AWS can take the machine back in two minutes. Here's how we run real production on it without paging anyone.
A practitioner's comparison of Terraform and CloudFormation on AWS covering state, drift, new-service lag, rollback, and where CDK fits.
A 502 from your ingress means no healthy backend to talk to. A 504 means the backend answered too slowly. Here's how to tell them apart and fix each.
The Compose failures that eat an afternoon are almost always the same six. Here's how to spot each one fast and the fix that actually sticks.
Your pods are running, your Service exists, and nothing can reach it. Here's the exact order we check things when a Kubernetes Service goes dark.
