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Eyal Bukchin23h ago • 5 min read
Auto-verifying your AI-SRE's fixes (Part II): HolmesGPT end-to-end on a real cluster
We ran HolmesGPT against two planted bugs in a real GKE cluster; mirrord exec verified the patches. ...
#ai#sre#kubernetes#devops
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Vinothsingh Elumalai17h ago • 13 min read
How an AI Terminal Assistant Became My Team's Most Productive Engineer - Opencode + Claude + MCP
We connected Claude to multiple tools n our tech stack via MCP. It found >$100K/month in waste, inve...
#ai#sre#productivity#aws
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Bruce Mcpherson2d ago • 9 min read
From Kubernetes to a Self-Healing, Low-Cost Infrastructure
I've been running a background project on Kubernetes for a while now. It's not a project that needs....
#devops#infrastructure#kubernetes#sre
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Nijo George Payyappilly2d ago • 17 min read
Automating Toil Elimination: A Systematic Taxonomy of SRE Automation Patterns
Every SRE team has a list of things they intend to automate. The list grows faster than it shrinks.....
#sre#devops#kubernetes#automation
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Michelle 1d ago • 5 min read
When Everything Is Broken, Where Do You Start?
When you inherit a system you've never seen before and everything appears broken, where do you...
#career#productivity#softwareengineering#sre
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claire nguyen2d ago • 4 min read
EBS gp2 burst credits ran dry and our builds slowed to a crawl
TL;DR: A chunk of our EC2 build agents got slow at the same time every afternoon. No CPU pressure, n...
#infrastructure#devops#sre#aws
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JustJinoIT4d ago • 2 min read
Why "is it fully fixed?" has no honest answer — a small-server story
I run a side project on a 1GB free-tier VPS. Small box, a few services, nothing fancy. While fixing...
#devops#monitoring#sre#lessons
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Samson Tanimawo3d ago • 2 min read
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....
#sre#devops#chaos#resilience
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James Joyner5d ago • 9 min read
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...
#devops#ai#documentation#sre
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Bart Holden19h ago • 6 min read
I built an AI incident copilot that does not store your production logs
I built an AI incident copilot that does not store your production logs Every engineer has...
#ai#security#showdev#sre
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SAI RAM5d ago • 15 min read
How DNS Actually Works: Resolution Hierarchy, Caching, and Production Failure Modes
DNS Is an Indirection Layer, Not a Lookup Table The "phonebook" metaphor everyone reaches...
#infrastructure#networking#sre#systemdesign
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claire nguyen6d ago • 4 min read
A provider latency spike stalled our whole build queue
TL;DR: A provider slowdown turned a 2-second LLM call into a 70-second hang. Because our build agent...
#sre#infrastructure#llm#devops
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claire nguyen2d ago • 4 min read
Semantic caching our flaky-test summariser: 58% fewer LLM calls
TL;DR: Our internal flaky-test summariser at Buildkite was firing ~40k LLM calls a day, and most wer...
#sre#devops#llm#mlops
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Arnav Gupta4d ago • 4 min read
Chaos Engineering for Node.js Without the Infrastructure
Chaos engineering sounds expensive. Netflix built Chaos Monkey to randomly kill production servers.....
#api#node#sre#testing
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claire nguyen6d ago • 4 min read
An 8-minute outage from a dead NLB and a JVM that cached DNS forever
TL;DR: We drained a Network Load Balancer during a planned migration, and one internal service kept....
#sre#infrastructure#devops#kubernetes
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Samson Tanimawo2d ago • 2 min read
The On-Call Schedule Math Nobody Does
Most on-call schedules are designed in a slack thread, in 20 minutes, by whoever drew the short...
#sre#devops#oncall#operations
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solosre3d ago • 5 min read
What 60+ Claude Code memory entries taught me about solo ops
A year of running a paid service alone. My Claude Code memory has more battle scars than my runbook....
#claude#sre#devops#ai
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Samson Tanimawo22h ago • 2 min read
I Reduced Our Alert Volume by 90% — Here's the Playbook
The Night I Almost Quit Three months into my SRE role, I was averaging 47 alerts per...
#sre#devops#monitoring#observability
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Slim21h ago • 4 min read
99.9% uptime is 43 minutes a month. Do you know your number?
Every uptime SLA, translated into plain downtime per year, month, week, and day. Plus the part nobod...
#monitoring#devops#sre#webdev
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enderfirst6d ago • 4 min read
Most AI dev tools assume you have a repo. Ops engineers have a broken node and a 3am page.
Most AI coding tools assume you're sitting in front of a repo. There's a working directory, some...
#linux#sre#shell#cli
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claire nguyen5d ago • 4 min read
Fault-injecting our LLM provider to trust Bifrost fallbacks
TL;DR: We run an LLM-backed build-failure summariser at Buildkite. To stop a provider wobble from...
#sre#devops#llm#infrastructure
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CrisisCore-Systems20h ago • 5 min read
Protective Computing: Software Should Fail Safely Under Stress
Protective Computing is an engineering approach for building software that reduces exposure and fail...
#architecture#softwareengineering#sre#ux
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Jonas Barros2d ago • 4 min read
Automate creation of Amazon CloudWatch alarms
Recently I developed a new feature for this Github Action to automate the creation of AWS Cloudwatch...
#aws#sre#githubactions#github
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Samson Tanimawo6d ago • 3 min read
Agent Handoff Contracts: The Missing Piece in Production Agent Systems
Most of the "we're adding AI to our ops platform" stories you'll read this year will skip the one...
#sre#devops#ai#architecture
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