Stopping Runaway AI Loops: Implementing Enterprise FinOps and Observability with PolicyAware
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SRE Playbook: A Guide to Discover and Catalog Non-Human Identities (NHI)
As a site reliability engineer in a global company, I'm running a modern (well, relatively modern, to be honest and modest) cloud-native stack: HashiC…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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? …
Exponential backoff with jitter stopped our CI retry storms
TL;DR: Exponential backoff with jitter spreads client retries over time so a recovering service doesn't get flattened by a synchronised wave. We added…
How an AI Terminal Assistant Became My Team's Most Productive Engineer - Opencode + Claude + MCP
Table of Contents The Moment That Changed Everything What It Actually Is The Setup Nobody Believes Is This Simple Focused Sessions — One Agent, One Mi…
Introducing Nova AI Ops: The AI-Native Operating System for SRE Teams
Hey, I'm Samson — and I built Nova AI Ops because I was tired of being paged at 3 AM. For years, I watched SRE teams (including my own) drown in the s…
Capacity Planning Without ML: The 80/20 Approach
There's a small industry of vendors that want to sell you machine learning capacity planning. For 95% of teams, you don't need it. You need a spreadsh…
What 60+ Claude Code memory entries taught me about solo ops
I run a paid infrastructure service. Alone. No co-founder, no on-call rotation, no senior engineer to escalate to. My only collaborator is Claude Code…
Runbook Hygiene: Why Yours Are Lying to You
Your runbooks are out of date. I don't know your team, but I'd bet money on it. Most teams write runbooks once, in a panic after an outage, and then n…
How I Built an Autonomous Incident Investigation Agent That Reduced MTTR by 65%
Series: AI-Native SRE Table of Contents The Problem Every On-Call Engineer Knows What FRIDAY Does Architecture Overview Key Design Decisions The Tool-…
Building an AI SRE That Learns From Every Outage: Inside Nexus Sentinel
Every engineering team has experienced it. A production incident happens at 2 AM. An engineer joins the bridge call, opens dashboards, checks logs, se…
What is SRE? A Beginner's Guide to Site Reliability Engineering
Why This Matters: The 2 AM Problem It's 2 AM. Your phone rings. Your production database is down. Customers can't log in. Revenue is dropping by the s…
Surviving the region you run in: failover on Aurora DSQL, and what the demo proves
The thesis Quorum is built on is uncomfortable and true: the tools a team uses to coordinate an incident often live in the same region as the thing th…
Supercharging Kubernetes: How eBPF is Revolutionizing SRE and Platform Engineering
The ecosystem surrounding Kubernetes has always been a rapidly moving target. Just when Site Reliability Engineers and Platform Engineers feel they ha…
Engineering Design Document: Reusable Observability Platform V2
A production-focused redesign of a Stage 6 LGTM observability platform, moving from a single-service Anvila monitoring setup to a reusable, secure, hi…
GPU Incident at 3am: eBPF Tracing from Page to Root Cause in 60 Seconds
TL;DR 3am page: GPU training pipeline missed its SLA. Datadog shows 95% GPU utilization. nvidia-smi agrees. Everything looks green, but the job is 3x …
Hidden Coupling in Distributed Financial Systems: Dependencies You Didn't Know You Had
Abstract Distributed financial systems are described through explicit interfaces. Services call APIs, consume events, write to databases, submit trans…
The AI Pilot-to-Production Gap Is an SRE Problem And We Already Know How to Close It
A startup raised $50M this week to help companies move AI out of stalled pilots and into production. Investors called it "the defining gap of 2026." S…
The 32-bit Hidden Countdown in ClickHouse Keeper: How an XID Overflow Gave Us Weekly Read-Only Bursts
A production debugging story: tracing recurring 2–5-second read-only storms on a ClickHouse cluster down to a single 32-bit integer — and the one-line…
The SIGTERM our build workers ignored, and the 90s that fixed it
TL;DR: Our ECS build workers were quietly killing in-flight jobs every time we scaled in or deployed. The fix wasn't a bigger timeout, it was actually…