Fix Docker Exit Code 137 (OOMKilled): Why It Happens and How to Stop It
Your container died and docker ps -a shows something like Exited (137) 4 minutes ago . Nine times out of ten that's the kernel's OOM killer, not your …
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Your uptime SLA means nothing when the physical process can't wait for your rollback
There’s a conversation that happens when IT developers first encounter operational technology. It usually goes something like this: “What’s your uptim…
AWS puts gray zone failures into the EKS control loop
What AWS is calling out The New Stack, on July 10, published a walk-through of what running Kubernetes across a very large EKS fleet has taught AWS ab…
🚀 Calling all DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineers! Let’s build the future of AI for DevOps together.
Over the last few years, I've been exploring AI agents, and one thing became obvious. There are hundreds of AI agents available today, but almost all …
Service Level Objectives for Complex Microservices
Why SLOs Break in Microservices A SLO that works for a monolith often collapses when you distribute the same logic across 30 services. The math of ava…
Building a Culture of Reliability: Beyond the SRE Handbook
You Can't Hire Your Way to Reliability I've seen companies hire 5 SREs and expect reliability to magically improve. It doesn't. Reliability is a cultu…
The expensive half of your incident bot is the half you didn't build
An incident bot caught the CrashLoopBackOff at 3:12 a.m., proposed delete_pod, and the on-call approved it half asleep at 3:14. The new pod went Runni…
SRE AI Agent Safe Failure Implementation
Building Trustworthy AI Agents in Site Reliability Engineering Site Reliability Engineering is entering a new phase where agentic AI can assist with a…
End of week. Here's the thing I kept coming back to:
LinkedIn Draft — Insight (2026-07-10) End of week. Here's the thing I kept coming back to: SLOs work when they create conversations, not when they cre…
Incident Communication: The Status Page That Builds Trust
Silence Destroys Trust During our worst outage, we went 35 minutes without updating the status page. Twitter filled the void. Theories ranged from dat…
How to Configure Apache as a Reverse Proxy with mod_proxy
The shape of a typical modern enterprise deployment involves Apache serving as a TLS-terminating reverse proxy sitting in front of upstream applicatio…
Docker Containerization Habits That Keep Production Calm
Most of the container incidents I've helped clean up didn't come from anything exotic. They came from small shortcuts that felt reasonable on a Tuesda…
Debugging Containers From the Terminal: A Practical Docker CLI Workflow
A container that's misbehaving is one of those problems where your instinct works against you. The pressure pushes you toward the dramatic move — rest…
Why Your Microservices Need Circuit Breakers (And How to Add Them)
The Cascading Failure That Took Down Everything Our payment service went down for 3 minutes. No big deal, right? Except every service that called paym…
How We Built an AI That Never Forgets Production Incidents
How We Built an AI That Never Forgets Production Incidents Can AI become your smartest Site Reliability Engineer? We decided to find out. Every softwa…
I let an AI handle an outage. It invented a hack that never happened, then spiraled
One evening, a monitoring alert went off: a server behind a web service was down. I handed the incident to an AI coding agent. Half experiment, half l…
SLOs That Product Managers Actually Understand
The SLO Translation Problem You define an SLO: 99.95% availability with p99 latency under 200ms. Engineering loves it. Product managers glaze over. Th…
Something I wish someone had told me five years earlier:
LinkedIn Draft — Insight (2026-07-03) Something I wish someone had told me five years earlier: Distributed tracing: the gap between having it and usin…
I built a production risk scanner in one day, here's what it caught
If you're an SRE or DevOps engineer — try blastradar.vercel.app and tell me what you actually think. The tool BlastRadar scores any code diff for prod…
Self healing and secure. Good combo.
Build software that heals itself in the agentic era Gabe LG Gabe LG Gabe LG Follow Jul 1 Build software that heals itself in the agentic era # ai # ag…
Google SRE Review - Cheat Sheet
If you're a software engineer, architect, engineering manager, or platform engineer, I consider the Google SRE Book to be one of the handful of books …
Planning network checks before running them: a local-first workflow pattern
Many operations tasks do not begin as tickets, dashboards, or scripts. They begin as intent. Someone says: Check whether this subnet looks normal. Or:…
Kubernetes resource requests and limits explained: scheduling, throttling, and OOMKill
This is part of the Platform engineering with Go series: a growing collection of posts on Kubernetes, Go tooling, and infrastructure automation. View …
Log Management at Scale: How We Cut Costs 70% Without Losing Signal
$12,000/Month for Logs Nobody Reads Our logging bill was $12,000/month. We were ingesting 2TB/day. When I asked the team what percentage of logs they …
The Ultimate Guide to Production-Grade AI Agents
Production-grade AI agents are systems that execute multi-step workflows autonomously while maintaining reliability, security, and observability guara…
Blameless Postmortems in Practice
Most teams claim they do blameless postmortems. Then the incident happens. "Jane didn't validate the input." "The on-call missed the alert." "We shoul…
Circuit Breaker and Bulkhead Thresholds You Can Tune Live (Kiponos Java SDK)
Circuit breakers and bulkheads are design patterns — their numbers are operational weapons. Failure ratio 50% or 30%? Max concurrent calls 25 or 100? …
Daftar Periksa Kesiapan Produksi AI Setelah POC: Dari Sandbox ke Sistem Nyata
POC selesai, demo berjalan mulus, dan stakeholder mengangguk setuju. Langkah berikutnya bukan sekadar "deploy ke production"—melainkan memastikan seti…
Kubernetes 1.36: 8 Features Worth Your Attention
Kubernetes 1.36 (Haru) brings around 70 enhancements, ranging from security improvements to new scheduling capabilities. While most release summaries …
The Golden Signals: A Practical Implementation Guide
Four Metrics to Rule Them All Google's SRE book introduced the four golden signals: Latency, Traffic, Errors, and Saturation. Simple concept, but I've…