Leadership & Culture
Incident authority: make the next mitigation decidable
Separate incident coordination from mitigation authority, compare competing actions, and use a worksheet that preserves decisions and verification.
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SRE
SRE runbook template: diagnosis, bounded action, and recovery
Download a Markdown runbook template and follow a database connection example that separates symptoms, mitigation decisions, and verified recovery.
How-To
Containers and orchestration: understand what the platform guarantees
Containers package processes; orchestration reconciles desired state. Reliability still depends on probes, capacity, dependencies, and application behavior.
SRE
SRE KPIs: measure outcomes, response, and operational cost
Choose a small set of reliability indicators with clear definitions, useful distributions, and an explicit decision attached to each.
News
Kubernetes Memory QoS: what AI inference teams should test
Memory QoS reaches beta in Kubernetes 1.37. For AI inference teams, the rollout question is how host-memory policy affects serving latency and neighboring workers.
Technology Overviews
Supervising coding agents with Herdr
Check agent status, terminal persistence, and recovery before adopting Herdr.
AIOps
When agents can change production
Define the action, contain its scope, and verify what changed at the destination.
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
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
Connect PagerDuty, Jira, and Slack without losing incident state
A design guide for an incident assistant that handles duplicate events, partial failures, and reviewed AI summaries across tools.
AIOps
Prompt engineering for operators: make evidence and limits explicit
A reusable prompt pattern for incident analysis, with checks for missing facts, unsafe recommendations, and unsupported certainty.