Technology Overviews
Herdr: how to supervise coding agents
Herdr keeps coding agents visible and their terminals persistent. Here is how to evaluate its status signals, recovery behavior, and place in SRE work.
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AIOps
Production agents: authorize the action, then verify the outcome
Define production-agent authority, reconcile uncertain writes, verify outcomes independently, and use an execution contract before expanding scope.
How-To
OpenTelemetry for SRE: connect the signals that explain a request
Understand instrumentation, context propagation, and the Collector, and why consistent telemetry still needs careful signal design.
How-To
Where SRE and platform engineering need an explicit handoff
A practical ownership model for shared platforms, service reliability, incident command, and the work that falls between teams.
How-To
Postmortem risk treatment: decide what the fix actually proved
Separate delivered postmortem actions from demonstrated risk reduction, close only tested scope, and record residual exposure with a treatment worksheet.
AIOps
AI token usage: plan for cost, latency, and context limits
Measure tokens per completed task, account for retries and tool output, and preserve the evidence an operational assistant needs.
How-To
Use the 5 Whys without forcing an incident into one cause
Follow evidence through technical failure and incident response, then test whether the proposed correction changes the mechanism.
AIOps
NotebookLM for SRE: build a source-backed incident dossier
Use a curated notebook to compare runbooks and incident evidence, while keeping citations, freshness, and operational authority in view.
AIOps
GPU capacity depends on power and cooling
When inference slows without obvious application errors, test physical constraints alongside queueing, workload changes, and software regressions.
AIOps
Evaluate Claude Opus 4.6 for operational work
Test evidence retrieval, long-session consistency, tool boundaries, and cost before letting a model influence production changes.
AIOps
Agent skills for SRE: write the execution contract
Define inputs, permissions, idempotency, verification, and stop conditions for one operational capability before expanding its authority.
AIOps
From AIOps signals to agent actions: design the handoff
Decide which workflow deserves an agent, where a fixed automation is sufficient, and how to measure the work left for responders.