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••last week

Monitoring That Actually Helps On-Call: Alerts, Dashboards, and Runbooks

How we went from 200 alerts per week (most ignored) to 15 actionable alerts with clear runbooks and useful dashboards.

Kiril urbonas

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••last week

Incident Postmortems That Actually Prevent Repeat Failures

How to write postmortems that lead to real improvements, not just documentation theater. Includes a template and real examples.

Kiril urbonas

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••2 weeks ago

Linux Performance Troubleshooting: A Real Incident Walkthrough

Step-by-step debugging of a production Linux server hitting 100% CPU. From top to perf to the actual fix.

Kiril urbonas

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••2 weeks ago

AWS Cost Audit: 7 Things We Found Wasting Money Every Month

A real cost audit uncovered idle load balancers, oversized RDS instances, and forgotten snapshots. Here's what we found and how we fixed each one.

Kiril urbonas

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••2 weeks ago

Model Fallback Policies for Customer-Facing AI: The Routing Rules That Kept SLA Intact

A real-world model fallback guide for customer-facing AI systems, covering how one team preserved response quality and support SLAs during a partial provider degradation.

Kiril urbonas

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••2 weeks ago

RDS Restore Drills for Busy Teams: The Recovery Workflow That Surfaced Real Gaps

A hands-on RDS restore drill guide for small cloud teams that thought backups were covered until a timed restore test exposed missing steps, DNS confusion, and stale credentials.

Kiril urbonas

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••3 weeks ago

Systemd Drop-In Overrides for Vendor Services: The Supportable Linux Ops Pattern

A practical systemd drop-in guide built from a real operations problem: vendor unit files kept changing, but the team still needed consistent restart, environment, and logging behavior.

Kiril urbonas

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••3 weeks ago

Embedding Model Upgrades Without Search Chaos: A Safer RAG Rollout Pattern

A practical embedding model upgrade guide for RAG systems, built from a real support-search migration that initially reduced answer quality instead of improving it.

Kiril urbonas

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••3 weeks ago

Multi-Cluster Traffic Routing Strategies: A Pragmatic Rollout Pattern for Growing SaaS Teams

A real-world multi-cluster traffic routing guide for SaaS teams that have outgrown a single Kubernetes cluster and need safer rollout control without a service-mesh science project.

Kiril urbonas

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••3 weeks ago

Systemd Service Reliability Patterns: What We Changed After Repeated Restart Loops

A practical systemd reliability guide for Linux services, built around repeated restart-loop incidents and the unit-file patterns that finally made those services boring.

Kiril urbonas

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••0 months ago

Cloud Disaster Recovery Runbook Design: How Small Teams Rehearse Multi-Region Failover

A practical disaster recovery runbook guide for small cloud teams that need realistic failover steps, clear ownership, and repeatable rehearsals instead of shelfware documents.

Kiril urbonas

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••last month

How We Stopped Terraform Drift from Surprising On-Call

A real story of removing console-only changes, adding drift detection, and getting Terraform back in charge.

Kiril urbonas

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