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.
Observability
DevOps
SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets: The Reliability Framework That Actually Works
SLAs are for lawyers. SLOs are for engineers. Here's how to define meaningful service level objectives, measure them properly, and use error budgets to make smarter deployment decisions.
Networking
eBPF Explained: How It's Revolutionizing Cloud Networking and Observability
A practical guide to eBPF: how it works at the kernel level, why Cilium replaced iptables for Kubernetes networking, and how eBPF powers next-generation observability without sidecars.
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.