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Monitoring That Actually Helps On-Call: Alerts, Dashboards, and Runbooks
••4 days ago

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.

KU
Kiril urbonas
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Terraform Modules Done Right: Lessons from Managing 50+ Services
••last week

Terraform Modules Done Right: Lessons from Managing 50+ Services

Practical patterns for Terraform modules at scale: versioning, composition, testing, and avoiding the monolith trap.

KU
Kiril urbonas
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Terraform Module Version Pinning: How One Platform Team Stopped Surprise Breakage
••2 weeks ago

Terraform Module Version Pinning: How One Platform Team Stopped Surprise Breakage

A real-world Terraform module version pinning guide for platform teams that want safer upgrades, clearer ownership, and fewer broken pipelines after shared module releases.

KU
Kiril urbonas
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Terraform State Isolation by Environment: How We Stopped One Change from Hitting Prod
••2 weeks ago

Terraform State Isolation by Environment: How We Stopped One Change from Hitting Prod

A practical Terraform state isolation guide built from a real environment-mixing incident, with patterns for safer backends, clearer ownership, and lower blast radius.

KU
Kiril urbonas
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Infrastructure Documentation as Code: How One Platform Team Reduced Audit Fire Drills
••3 weeks ago

Infrastructure Documentation as Code: How One Platform Team Reduced Audit Fire Drills

This infrastructure documentation as code guide shows how a platform team moved runbooks, ownership maps, and architecture decisions into versioned workflows that people actually trusted.

KU
Kiril urbonas
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How We Stopped Terraform Drift from Surprising On-Call
••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.

KU
Kiril urbonas
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Ansible and Infrastructure as Code: Idempotency and Best Practices
••last month

Ansible and Infrastructure as Code: Idempotency and Best Practices

Write Ansible playbooks that are idempotent, readable, and maintainable for config management.

KU
Kiril urbonas
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How We Stopped Terraform Drift from Surprising On-Call
••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.

KU
Kiril urbonas
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Platform Engineering with Backstage: Build a Useful Developer Portal
••last month

Platform Engineering with Backstage: Build a Useful Developer Portal

How to implement Backstage with real templates, scorecards, and golden paths so internal platform work reduces delivery friction.

KU
Kiril Urbonas
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How We Stopped Terraform Drift from Surprising On-Call
••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.

KU
Kiril urbonas
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How We Stopped Terraform Drift from Surprising On-Call
••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.

KU
Kiril urbonas
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Operational Checklist: Infrastructure Documentation as Code
••last month

Operational Checklist: Infrastructure Documentation as Code

Infrastructure Documentation as Code. Practical guidance for reliable, scalable platform operations.

KU
Kiril Urbonas
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