DevOps
Monitoring and Logging: What to Track, How to Alert, and Tools That Work
Practical monitoring and logging advice from three decades of production operations. What metrics matter, how to build alerts that work, and tools I trust.
Monitoring
DevOps
Observability Pipelines: OpenTelemetry Collector, Cribl, and Taming the Telemetry Data Flood Before It Bankrupts You
How to build observability pipelines with the OpenTelemetry Collector, Cribl, and Vector to cut telemetry costs 60-80% without losing diagnostic visibility.
Cloud Architecture
LLM Observability in Production: Tracing, Evaluation, and How to Know When Your AI Is Broken
A practical guide to instrumenting LLM applications with OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic conventions, choosing between Langfuse, LangSmith, and Arize Phoenix, tracking token costs, and running evaluation in production.
DevOps
The Cloud-Native Observability Stack: Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, and Tempo in Production
A deep-dive into building a production-grade observability stack with Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, and Tempo. Learn the architecture, scaling trade-offs, cardinality traps, and when the open-source stack beats a $40k/month SaaS bill.
DevOps
OpenTelemetry and Distributed Tracing: Making Sense of Microservice Chaos
How OpenTelemetry works, why distributed tracing is different from logging and metrics, and how to instrument your services without drowning in overhead and noise.