Nate Reuck

SRE and platform engineering practitioner. Writing about what actually works in production.

Understand spans, parent-child relationships, retries, and missing evidence so traces support a careful diagnosis.

September 28, 20233 min read

Connect telemetry, customer reports, decisions, and verification so improvements in a dashboard reflect improvements in the service.

September 28, 20233 min read

An error budget translates an SLO into an allowed amount of bad service. Its value comes from the decisions attached to consumption and burn rate.

September 28, 20233 min read

Choose a small set of reliability indicators with clear definitions, useful distributions, and an explicit decision attached to each.

September 28, 20234 min read

Use the free SRE books as references for a concrete service problem, then adapt and test the practices against your own constraints.

September 18, 20233 min read