Thoughts on systems architecture, reliability engineering, and building resilient infrastructure.
Kubernetes solves orchestration. It doesn't solve your architecture, your deployment strategy, or your operational maturity. Adopting it without these foundations just gives you orchestrated chaos.
If you're only load testing before launch, you're already behind. Performance characteristics should be understood, measured, and budgeted for as part of the design — not validated after the fact.
Exciting technology makes for great conference talks. Boring technology makes for great businesses. Here's why the most reliable systems are built on the least exciting tools.
Static runbooks decay the moment they're written. The answer isn't better documentation — it's automated remediation with human oversight.
Systems don't fail because they're poorly built. They fail because failure wasn't part of the design. Here's how to change that.