92 articles tagged with Monitoring.
We use blue-green for stateful services where canary doesn't fit. The actual mechanics, the data-layer subtleties, and when blue-green isn't the right answer.
We collect ~800GB of logs per day across our fleet. The shape of our logging stack, what we keep, what we drop, and what we'd build differently.
A working Prometheus stack for a 40-node cluster: what we deploy, what we tune, and what we wish we'd known about cardinality two years ago.
A focused look at the techniques that shrink container images: which actually pay off, which are folklore, and the discipline that keeps images small over time.
We've had to restore a Kubernetes cluster from backup twice. Once it worked. Once it took 14 hours. Here's the strategy we run now.
We ran Istio for a year, then switched to Linkerd. Both can do the job. The decision came down to operational fit, not features.
We started with a single Celery worker handling everything. Eight months and three architecture changes later, here's what scaled and what we learned about queue design.
We cut our average CI build time from 28 minutes to 6 minutes. The changes that mattered, ranked by impact.
We migrated 40+ services to GitOps with Argo CD. Two years in, here's what works and what required workarounds.
How a packet actually gets from the internet to a pod, walked layer by layer. Plus the things that surprise people the first time they hit them.
We've shipped three end-to-end ML systems. The pieces that look obvious in slides and turn out to be the actual work.
Standard APM doesn't tell you when your LLM-powered features are silently degrading. The signals we track and the dashboards that catch the regressions standard tools miss.
