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HarishAug 22, 2026 • 6 min read
4 Non-obvious learnings from working with alerts
Alerting is a details game. Nobody gets paged by their intent — they get paged by the exact query...
#observability#sre#prometheus#devops
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ilya mozerov6d ago • 8 min read
Your backlog alarm is an accumulation statistic
The alarm that cannot see the thing it is watching I keep a small research tier in a git...
#monitoring#devops#sre#statistics
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ilya mozerov5d ago • 8 min read
The 95th percentile is a Gaussian constant, and it moves the wrong way
The knob nobody defends If you have ever measured a tail — p95 latency, a Hill estimator,...
#statistics#monitoring#sre#datascience
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Kestrion6d ago • 4 min read
The First 10 Things I Would Check in a Messy Kubernetes Cluster
A practical first-pass assessment for an undocumented Kubernetes cluster—focused on risk, cost,...
#kubernetes#devops#sre#infrastructure
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Prateek SrivastavaAug 20, 2026 • 7 min read
Our EKS Node Crashed and Four Auto-Recovery Mechanisms All Failed. Here's Why.
⚡ TL;DR: An EKS worker node running 30+ pods crashed at 08:43 IST on Aug 16. EC2 Auto Scaling didn't...
#kubernetes#devops#aws#sre
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ilya mozerov5d ago • 6 min read
A perfect separation in your data is a bug in your instrument
I have a poller that watches a wifi link. Every 60 seconds it asks "are we associated?", and when th...
#monitoring#sre#debugging#observability
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Usman Tahir QureshiAug 24, 2026 • 3 min read
Building DrScore: A Practical Way to Measure Disaster Recovery Readiness
GitHub Repo The checkbox that wasn't real A few months ago, I sat in a meeting where someone...
#devops#aws#sre#cloud
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Saqib Ameen SubhanAug 23, 2026 • 3 min read
I take down a healthy primary on purpose. You should too.
At one company I built an autoscaling pipeline that replaced MongoDB cluster nodes automatically....
#mongodb#highavailability#sre#database
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Srivatsa KamballaAug 21, 2026 • 8 min read
The only thing my Kubernetes agent can do is write a git commit
Every AI SRE tool will read your cluster and tell you what is wrong. Almost none of them are trusted...
#kubernetes#devops#sre#testing
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praveenlavuAug 21, 2026 • 3 min read
Why Self-Heal Loops Need a Canary Gate
Why Your Self-Heal Loop Needs a Canary Gate The alert came in at 1:47 AM. The kind I had...
#architecture#automation#devops#sre
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Nijo George PayyappillyAug 24, 2026 • 12 min read
HPA vs KEDA vs VPA: A Quantitative Framework for Autoscaling Strategy Selection in Kubernetes
The Kubernetes autoscaling landscape is one where most decisions are made by convention rather than....
#sre#devops#kubernetes#cloudnative
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Schiff Heimlich6d ago • 2 min read
That Time Client Retries Turned a Recovery Into a 7-Hour Outage
GitHub had an interesting incident last August. A component in Central US failed under load, and whe...
#architecture#devops#sre#systemdesign
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Alex @ Vibe Agent Making5d ago • 10 min read
Our Post-Mortem Was So Good We Never Fixed the Bug
A brilliant investigation and a perfunctory one converge on the same three weak fixes. The analysis....
#devops#sre#postmortem#incidentresponse
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ilya mozerov6d ago • 5 min read
Your test's OOM kill and a real one look identical — stop telling them apart by size
At 13:33 today a real job on my machine was killed by the kernel for exceeding its memory...
#sre#observability#linux#monitoring
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MarcoAug 21, 2026 • 2 min read
Daily Dose of DevOps — Kubernetes readiness vs liveness probes
Kubernetes Probes as Failure Detectors: Semantics, Timing, and Cascading Risk Kubernetes...
#devops#kubernetes#sre
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DevOps OasisAug 22, 2026 • 8 min read
SRE Starts With The Alert That Woke Us
A practical beginner primer on SRE, using our payment API alerts, SLOs, error budgets, and on-call d...
#devops#sre
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Marco6d ago • 2 min read
Daily Dose of DevOps — Kubernetes readiness vs liveness probes
Kubernetes Probes as Failure Detectors: Semantics, Timing, and Cascading Risk Kubernetes...
#devops#kubernetes#sre
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Prateek SrivastavaAug 23, 2026 • 6 min read
A Windows Service is Down. Now What?
It doesn't matter if it's SQL Server, IIS, a background agent, or a custom app — when a Windows...
#devops#microsoft#sql#sre
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PRRAug 21, 2026 • 5 min read
The SRE Leadership Operating System: 7 Mechanisms That Make Reliability Scale
Reliability doesn't scale simply because an organization hires more SREs. It scales when reliabilit...
#sre#reliability#engineeringleadership#devops
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MEROLINE LIZLENT5d ago • 4 min read
The Architecture Behind Software That Never Stops Running
"Never stops running" is a lie in the literal sense , i.e. all hardware fails, all software runs out...
#architecture#sre#distributedsystems#go
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PhilemonShaw84535d ago • 8 min read
Node.js Express Production Logging for Property Incidents (Hosted API Evidence Rules)
Short answer: For a small Node.js Express service, keep Pino at the application boundary and choose....
#node#observability#sre
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Promeraki IoTAug 21, 2026 • 4 min read
Why Your IoT Alerts Get Ignored and How to Fix It
It is 2 a.m. The on-call engineer's phone buzzes. They glance at it, recognize the same alert they.....
#iot#monitoring#sre
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BrennThorn85715d ago • 5 min read
Node.js Worker Troubleshooting: Background Queue Retry Exhaustion
A retry loop is an availability problem before it is a queue-setting problem: it can spend all worke...
#node#queues#sre
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MerrickVance8452Aug 24, 2026 • 6 min read
Transactional Welcome Email API: Provider Templates Beat Custom-Domain Repository Setup
Short answer: for a Node.js logistics portal, use an API-based transactional welcome or...
#email#dkim#sre
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