Practical articles on AI, DevOps, Cloud, Linux, and infrastructure engineering.
How we went from 200 alerts per week (most ignored) to 15 actionable alerts with clear runbooks and useful dashboards.
How to write postmortems that lead to real improvements, not just documentation theater. Includes a template and real examples.
Step-by-step debugging of a production Linux server hitting 100% CPU. From top to perf to the actual fix.
A real cost audit uncovered idle load balancers, oversized RDS instances, and forgotten snapshots. Here's what we found and how we fixed each one.
A real-world model fallback guide for customer-facing AI systems, covering how one team preserved response quality and support SLAs during a partial provider degradation.
A hands-on RDS restore drill guide for small cloud teams that thought backups were covered until a timed restore test exposed missing steps, DNS confusion, and stale credentials.
A practical systemd drop-in guide built from a real operations problem: vendor unit files kept changing, but the team still needed consistent restart, environment, and logging behavior.
A practical embedding model upgrade guide for RAG systems, built from a real support-search migration that initially reduced answer quality instead of improving it.
A real-world multi-cluster traffic routing guide for SaaS teams that have outgrown a single Kubernetes cluster and need safer rollout control without a service-mesh science project.
A practical systemd reliability guide for Linux services, built around repeated restart-loop incidents and the unit-file patterns that finally made those services boring.
A practical disaster recovery runbook guide for small cloud teams that need realistic failover steps, clear ownership, and repeatable rehearsals instead of shelfware documents.
A real story of removing console-only changes, adding drift detection, and getting Terraform back in charge.
