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Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 12 posts
GPU Serving SLOs and Alert Design — What to Promise and What to Page On
Putting an SLO on a GPU inference service starts with deciding which metric represents the user experience. Time to first token and throughput eat each other, so setting a target on only one guarantees the other collapse
2026-08-12 · 7 min read #gpu#kubernetes#slo#alerting#prometheusDashboards That Get Read and Alerts Worth Paging — Defining Questions, Variables, SLOs, and Alert Fatigue
A dashboard is not useful for looking pretty — it earns its keep by answering a fixed set of questions in order. This post covers how to write down the questions a panel should answer before building it, and how to struc
2026-08-02 · 15 min read #observability#grafana#alerting#slo#dashboardsWhy Average Response Time Lies — How to Read p50, p95, and p99 Properly
A service whose average response time is 80ms can still keep users waiting three seconds, and that happens all the time. This post explains what the average hides in a long-tail distribution, which question each of p50,
2026-07-26 · 11 min read #observability#percentile#prometheus#histogram#sloAlerting That Does Not Wake You at 3AM — Symptom-Based Alerts and Burn Rate in Practice
On-call collapses not because there are too few alerts but because there are far too many. This post starts with the mechanism by which alert fatigue makes you miss real incidents, then covers the principle of paging onl
2026-07-26 · 13 min read #observability#alerting#slo#error-budget#prometheusOperator Observability — Metrics, Events, Logging, and SLOs
A deep dive into observability for Kubebuilder-based Operators across metrics, events, logging, tracing, status/conditions, and SLOs. From the meaning of controller-runtime default metrics to adding custom metrics, wirin
2026-06-15 · 19 min read #kubernetes#operator#observability#prometheus#controller-runtimeObservability 2026 Complete Guide — OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Grafana Stack (LGTM+Beyla), Honeycomb, Prometheus, Jaeger, eBPF & SLO Deep Dive
A thorough look at the 2026 production observability stack on top of the OpenTelemetry standard. Covers SaaS vendors (Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Splunk, Honeycomb, Coralogix, Logz.io, Chronosphere), open-source stack
2026-05-16 · 18 min read #observability#opentelemetry#datadog#grafana#honeycombObservability 2025 Complete Guide: OpenTelemetry, Grafana / Datadog / Honeycomb / SigNoz, SLO and Error Budget, LLM Observability (2025)
Season 5 Ep 8. Without observability there is no operations, and without operations there is no product. Unifying the three OpenTelemetry signals (metric, log, trace), the Grafana stack (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Mimir) v
2026-04-15 · 11 min read #observability#opentelemetry#grafana#datadog#honeycombObservability Complete Guide — Metric, Log, Trace, OpenTelemetry, eBPF, SLO (Season 2 Ep 9, 2025)
"If you cannot observe it, you cannot operate it." Observability is the superset of logging and monitoring — the ability to infer unknown unknowns from system state alone. This post covers the Metric, Log, Trace three-pi
2026-04-15 · 11 min read #observability#opentelemetry#prometheus#grafana#lokiSRE Practices Guide 2025: Incident Management, Postmortem, Error Budget, On-Call, Toil Elimination
Everything about SRE in practice! Incident management (detect → respond → recover → postmortem), Error Budget policy, On-Call operations (rotation/escalation/fatigue management), Toil elimination automation, SLO/SLI/SLA
2026-04-14 · 26 min read #sre#site-reliability#incident-management#postmortem#error-budgetSLI/SLO/Error Budget-Based Reliability Engineering: A Practical Guide
A comprehensive guide to reliability engineering with SLI/SLO/Error Budget. Covers SLI selection, SLO target setting, Error Budget policies, Burn Rate alerts, and Prometheus-based implementation to build a complete relia
2026-03-13 · 13 min read #observability#sli#slo#error-budget#srePrometheus PromQL Advanced Query and Recording Rules Optimization: Guide to Building SLI/SLO-Based Notification System
A comprehensive guide that covers everything from Prometheus PromQL advanced query patterns to performance optimization with Recording Rules, SLI/SLO-based notification rule design, Alertmanager routing strategy, and tro
2026-03-07 · 30 min read #observability#prometheus#promql#recording-rules#sliSLO and Error Budget Execution Manual
SLO and Error Budget Execution Manual - Practical Application Guide for 2026
2026-03-04 · 15 min read #observability#slo#2026-03