When Your Homelab Grows Up: How SQLite Took Down My k3s Control Plane
Originally published at wostal.eu . TL;DR : My Hetzner k3s lab quietly became a platform. Dozens of operators with leader-election leases hammered the…
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How to Write an Incident Postmortem in 2026 (With Template)
A postmortem turns an outage into something your team learns from instead of repeats. Here is the structure, why blameless matters, and a template you…
Building your own AI SRE moves the toil; it does not remove it
Now that Chronosphere leaders are telling engineering teams to build their own AI SRE, the honest question is who ends up carrying its pager. Their pi…
The Reliability Roadmap: A 90-Day Plan for New SRE Teams
New SRE team at your company? Here's a 90-day plan I've used twice. It works because it balances 'show immediate value' with 'build for the long term.…
Incident Retrospectives Without Blame
I've run over 100 post-mortems. The worst ones end with 'Alice will be more careful.' The best ones end with 'we fixed the system.' Here's how you get…
What if the safest Kubernetes fix is no fix at all?
AI-assisted DevOps and SRE tools are becoming more common. Tools like K8sGPT can scan Kubernetes clusters, detect issues, and explain what might be go…
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…
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…
Система растет там, где можно ошибаться. История из минского ИТ-хаба
Привет, Хабр! Я Артем, групп-лид в Т-Банке. Я пришел в Т почти пять лет назад и с тех пор так или иначе всегда работал в домене «Кэшбэки» — одной из в…
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…
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:…
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…
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 …
On-Call Wellness: Protecting Your Engineers from Burnout
The On-Call Burnout Epidemic I watched three senior SREs leave our team in six months. Exit interviews all said the same thing: on-call was unsustaina…
Post-Mortem Best Practices That Actually Drive Change
The Post-Mortem Nobody Learns From I've sat through hundreds of post-mortems. Most follow the same pattern: something breaks, someone writes a Google …
Humanizing Artificial Intelligence for SRE Teams: Reducing Alert Fatigue With Smarter AI Guidance
The pager goes off at 3:11 a.m. It's the fifth time tonight, and it's the same alert: HighMemoryUsage on a node that's running a memory-mapped cache d…
SLO as Code — нельзя верить людям
Всем привет, меня зовут Вячеслав, я Team Lead SRE в Купере. Рассказ в этой статье пойдет о том, как мы внедряли SLO , чего достигли и какие лайфхаки н…
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…
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…
Chaos Engineering Is Theater Without These Three Things
Chaos engineering has a credibility problem. Half the teams that adopt it are doing it because it's fashionable, not because it makes their systems mo…
Humanizing Artificial Intelligence in DevOps Documentation: Making Runbooks Easier to Create and Use
The Runbook That Lied to Me at 3am The pager went off at 3:14am for a wedged OpenStack Neutron agent. I did what any tired engineer does: I opened the…
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…
DevOps Salaries & Hiring in India 2026: What 800+ Live Job Listings Reveal
If you're a DevOps, SRE, or Cloud engineer in India — or hiring one — the market in 2026 looks very different from a few years ago. Instead of guessin…
The Engineer Who Owns Nothing: A Cautionary Tale
I'm going to tell you about an engineer I worked with. Call him Mark. Mark was talented, well-liked, and utterly ineffective. Here's what I learned fr…
Error Budget Policies That Hold Leadership Accountable
Error budgets are useless without a policy. 'We're out of error budget' should trigger consequences. If it doesn't, you don't have an error budget — y…
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…