Kubernetes
Do You Actually Need a Service Mesh?
A service mesh gives mTLS, traffic control, and observability, at real complexity cost. When a mesh is worth it, when it isn't, and the lighter alternatives.
#observability
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Engineering Strategy
Microservice Incident Response That Works
In microservices, the hard part of incident response is locating the fault across services. The triage order, the tools, and how to stop cascades fast.
Engineering Strategy
Grafana Dashboards for Operators, Not Executives
Most Grafana dashboards are decoration. An operator dashboard answers one question fast during an incident. How to design dashboards that speed up debugging.
Distributed Systems
Jaeger Tracing for Cross-Service Debugging
Jaeger turns a slow request across many services into one visual trace. How distributed tracing works, what to instrument, and the sampling tradeoff that bites.