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Practical articles on AI, DevOps, Cloud, Linux, and infrastructure engineering.
Real-World RAG Incidents: Lessons from a Production Rollout
A field report from rolling out retrieval-augmented generation in production, including cache bugs, bad embeddings, and how we fixed them.
How We Stopped Terraform Drift from Surprising On-Call
A real story of removing console-only changes, adding drift detection, and getting Terraform back in charge.
Systemd Tricks We Use to Keep Services Boring
Concrete systemd unit patterns that reduced flakiness: restart policies, resource limits, and structured logs.
A Pragmatic Multi-Region Strategy for Small Teams
How a small team moved from single-region risk to a simple active/passive multi-region setup without doubling complexity.
What We Learned Running Weekly Game Days on Our CI/CD Pipeline
Practical game day scenarios for CI/CD: broken rollbacks, permission issues, and slow feedback loops—and how we fixed them.
Ansible and Infrastructure as Code: Idempotency and Best Practices
Write Ansible playbooks that are idempotent, readable, and maintainable for config management.
Real-World RAG Incidents: Lessons from a Production Rollout
A field report from rolling out retrieval-augmented generation in production, including cache bugs, bad embeddings, and how we fixed them.
How We Stopped Terraform Drift from Surprising On-Call
A real story of removing console-only changes, adding drift detection, and getting Terraform back in charge.
Systemd Tricks We Use to Keep Services Boring
Concrete systemd unit patterns that reduced flakiness: restart policies, resource limits, and structured logs.
A Pragmatic Multi-Region Strategy for Small Teams
How a small team moved from single-region risk to a simple active/passive multi-region setup without doubling complexity.
End-of-Week Engineering: Why Smart Tech Teams Don’t Ship Major Changes on Friday
A practical risk-management framework for release timing, Friday deployment policies, progressive delivery, and how elite teams protect reliability and people.
Kubernetes Cost Optimization for Teams: FinOps Tactics That Actually Work
Cut Kubernetes spend without hurting reliability using a practical FinOps playbook for rightsizing, autoscaling guardrails, showback, and weekly waste cleanup.