Practical articles on AI, DevOps, Cloud, Linux, and infrastructure engineering.
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.
Practical game day scenarios for CI/CD: broken rollbacks, permission issues, and slow feedback loops—and how we fixed them.
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 cut our average CI build time from 28 minutes to 6 minutes. The changes that mattered, ranked by impact.
We scan every container image in CI and at runtime. Trivy + Cosign + admission controllers. The setup that earns its place and what we wish we'd known.
We migrated 40+ services to GitOps with Argo CD. Two years in, here's what works and what required workarounds.
