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…
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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…
How We Handled Our First Major Outage (And Survived)
Three years ago we had our first real outage. Six hours of downtime. Thousands of angry users. Multiple executives on the call. Here's what we did rig…
Building Trust with Product Teams as an SRE
SRE teams that fight with product teams don't get things done. SRE teams that get along with product teams get surprising amounts of reliability work …
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…
Incident Command: The Skills They Don't Teach You
Running a production incident is a skill. Most of the skill isn't technical. Here's what nobody told me when I started running incidents. Skill 1: Cal…
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 Case for a Dedicated Reliability Engineer
Many engineering teams treat reliability as 'everyone's responsibility.' In practice, that means it's nobody's responsibility. Here's why you need som…
Building ReefWatch, a Coral-Powered Production Triage Agent
Production incidents almost never break in one place. The alert fires in one tool. The broken deploy is in Netlify. The suspicious change is in GitHub…
A note on building reliability infrastructure for AI agents and why post-incident debugging matters more than pre-flight validation.
A few weeks ago I started building SafeRun — inline reliability infrastructure for AI agents in production. The temptation, when you're building somet…
Stop paying for idle GPUs in your CI: batching LLM eval jobs
TL;DR: Running LLM evaluations on every PR will burn your GPU budget faster than you can blink. We cut our eval spend by about 60% by batching jobs in…
End-to-End Observability for vLLM and TGI: from DCGM to Tokens
Running large language model inference servers in production exposes gaps that neither stock Prometheus dashboards nor the official documentation of v…
Production-Grade Observability: Building a Complete LGTM Stack with SLOs, DORA Metrics, and Intelligent Alerting
Introduction In modern DevOps, simply knowing whether your application is "up" or "down" isn't enough. Users care about latency, reliability, and the …
We're hiring a DevOps Content Engineer – Remote LATAM
We're building the agentic OS for DevOps — AI agents that make cloud environments self-building, self-healing, and self-optimizing. We're looking for …
The Future Guide for Escaping Single-Provider Administrative Failure
I no longer think the most dangerous cloud outage looks like an outage. The servers may be healthy. The dashboard may load. The data may still exist. …
A hard-earned rule from incident retrospectives:
LinkedIn Draft — Workflow (2026-05-19) A hard-earned rule from incident retrospectives: Incident RCA without a data-backed timeline is just a story yo…
Putting an LLM Gateway in Front of Our Build Agents: Why We Picked Bifrost
TL;DR: We bolted an LLM gateway in front of the AI features in our build pipeline tooling and ended up running Bifrost instead of LiteLLM or Kong. The…
I Made 4 LLMs Argue With Each Other to Write Better Runbooks. Here's What Happened.
A single LLM writing a production runbook is like asking one engineer to design, review, and approve their own code. It works. Sometimes. But the fail…
Why Developers Should Learn How Systems Fail
Most developers spend years learning how to build software, but far fewer spend time studying how software breaks. Yet some of the most valuable engin…
We've Normalized AI Outages, and That Should Bother You
I've been writing software and running production infrastructure for over 20 years. I've been on call at 3am, written post-mortems, and had the kind o…
Human Operators in Distributed Financial Systems: When People Become Part of the Architecture
Abstract Distributed financial systems are often modeled as autonomous infrastructures governed by deterministic logic, cryptographic guarantees, and …
IRAS: Building a Production-Grade Autonomous Incident Response Agent
IRAS: Building a Production-Grade Autonomous Incident Response Agent Incident response at 3 AM is brutal. Your on-call engineer is woken up, scrambles…
Operating the gateway: logs, traces, health, and degraded mode
The first eight chapters of this series have been about building an Auth Gateway. This one is about living with one. A gateway in front of every authe…
How to Write an Incident Postmortem That Actually Prevents Future Outages
Every team experiences incidents. The teams that grow stronger from them are the ones that take postmortems seriously — not as blame sessions, but as …