Practical articles on AI, DevOps, Cloud, Linux, and infrastructure engineering.
We use feature flags on roughly every customer-facing change. The provider tradeoff, the patterns that hold up, and the failure modes that show up only after a couple of years.
How we run OpenTelemetry across ~40 services. The instrumentation that earns its place, the patterns we abandoned, and what tracing actually catches that metrics don't.
A 2 AM incident, the autovacuum settings that caused it, and the parameter changes that prevented the next one. The discipline that took our biggest Postgres host from periodic stalls to steady.
The Argo CD patterns that held up under real traffic: repo layout, sync policies you can trust, secrets that stay out of git, and the anti-patterns we stopped repeating.
