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Decide which workflow deserves an agent, where a fixed automation is sufficient, and how to measure the work left for responders.

February 4, 20264 min read

Read validated architectures as a starting point for workload, recovery, and support testing, not a promise of automatic reliability.

April 2, 20254 min read

A reusable prompt pattern for incident analysis, with checks for missing facts, unsafe recommendations, and unsupported certainty.

March 31, 20253 min read

Adapt a complete SLO record, worked budget examples, and an exception log without confusing bad requests with minutes of downtime.

March 29, 20254 min read

Use directory purpose, mount boundaries, and read-only checks to investigate missing files, full disks, and unexpected runtime state.

March 28, 20254 min read

Measure a representative workload, identify the limiting resource, and test one reversible change instead of applying a universal sysctl recipe.

March 27, 20254 min read

Compare detection, correlation, investigation, and automation using your incidents, review costs, and failure paths.

March 24, 20253 min read

Define who does the work, who decides, and who accepts risk so ownership remains useful during incidents and follow-up.

October 7, 20233 min read

Choose representative traffic, define promotion criteria, and verify rollback compatibility before expanding a release.

October 6, 20234 min read

Counters, gauges, and distributions answer different questions. Build metrics that preserve scope, denominators, and the evidence behind an incident.

September 30, 20233 min read

Use Python logging to capture useful context without swallowing errors, duplicating exceptions, or exposing sensitive data.

September 30, 20233 min read

Define coverage, escalation, training, and recovery time before assigning the calendar. Review workload as well as shift counts.

September 29, 20233 min read