Practical articles on AI, DevOps, Cloud, Linux, and infrastructure engineering.
Concrete systemd unit patterns that reduced flakiness: restart policies, resource limits, and structured logs.
How a small team moved from single-region risk to a simple active/passive multi-region setup without doubling complexity.
AWS bill grew 40% YoY for two years before we got serious. Tagging, scoped budgets, and a weekly review meeting did 80% of the work.
Practical game day scenarios for CI/CD: broken rollbacks, permission issues, and slow feedback loops—and how we fixed them.
A field report from rolling out retrieval-augmented generation in production, including cache bugs, bad embeddings, and how we fixed them.
A team of 30 engineers all editing the same monolithic Ansible repo doesn't work. Here's the role taxonomy and review process that did.
A real story of removing console-only changes, adding drift detection, and getting Terraform back in charge.
Unify traces, metrics, and logs with OpenTelemetry. Instrumentation, sampling, and backend-agnostic pipelines.
One Terraform state file per environment sounds obvious until you watch a dev plan touch a prod resource. Here's how we actually isolate state and the mistakes we made getting there.