Articles
Articles
Long-form pieces on reliability, chaos engineering and resilience thinking. Some are also on Medium.
The SRE Interview That Actually Works: Screening for Resilience Thinking
Most SRE interviews test what candidates know. The ones that work test how they think when systems fail: a four-part framework, rubric and red flags.
99.9% uptime means 8 hours 46 minutes down. Per year.
What three nines actually allows, what one bad night does to it, and why uptime is a budget, not a promise.
Your retries can take down your own service
How retries without backoff, jitter or budgets turn a slow dependency into an outage, and the four habits that stop it.
Your system will break. The only question is whether you're watching when it does.
The chaos game-day checklist: run your first chaos experiment safely in one afternoon.
Your backup region is drifting right now. Here's the checklist that catches it.
Everything drifts: your DR region and your AI agents. A drift and failover checklist for apps and AI agents.
Build Your Own AI Agent Café, Step by Step
How I run 20 AI agents on two hours a night, and how you can start with three: eight steps and a starter prompt.
Your logs are eating your budget. Cut the bill without going blind.
Five ways to cut the observability bill, a $1.1M debug-line story, and the full log-bill checklist.
Small, reversible, predicted: three habits for safer changes
Predict before you change, shrink what you can't undo in a minute, and don't stop the review at "human error".