Why your platform team shipped nothing this quarter
They built a beautiful platform. Nobody used it.
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Notes on observability, reliability, and the stuff that breaks at 3am.
Your next outage will cost more than your Series B
The hidden costs of downtime that never show up in your MTTR report.
Read post →Your LLM costs more to observe than to run
AI observability is breaking every assumption we had about monitoring. And nobody's talking about it.
Read post →Why your team can't kill Datadog
Tool sprawl is an org problem, not a technical one. Here's why consolidation keeps failing.
Read post →Your SREs aren't burned out. They're gone.
The real cost of on-call isn't burnout. It's watching your best people disappear into PM roles.
Read post →Your SRE search is taking too long
The math on hiring senior SREs doesn't work. Here's what to do about it.
Read post →Your observability bill is lying to you
Why your Datadog bill went from $2k to $50k and what to do about it.
Read post →OTel broke our prod. Again.
OpenTelemetry version upgrades keep causing outages. Here's why.
Read post →The observability budget conversation nobody wants to have
How to talk to leadership when finance flags your telemetry spend.
Read post →What to actually look for in an SRE hire
Most SRE job postings are wishlists. Here's what matters.
Read post →The 3 AM page that shouldn't have happened
Most alerts are garbage. Here's how to fix that.
Read post →The OTel usability gap nobody fixed
It's 2026 and OpenTelemetry still feels like a tax.
Read post →Your best engineers are stuck firefighting
Why your senior engineers spend 30% of their time on incidents instead of building.
Read post →The hero problem
Your 10x engineer is a single point of failure.
Read post →Five dashboards to debug one request
Multi-cloud observability in 2026 is a mess. Here's why MTTR keeps climbing.
Read post →The war room is burning money
5 senior engineers in a war room for 4 hours costs more than you think.
Read post →Alert fatigue killed our on-call
82% of orgs have MTTR over an hour. Here's the real reason.
Read post →Series B infrastructure is held together with duct tape
You scaled fast. Now nobody knows how any of it connects.
Read post →eBPF isn't magic (but it's close)
Kernel-level observability sounds great until you hit the edge cases.
Read post →The board doesn't care about your uptime percentage
You think in nines. They think in dollars. Learn to translate.
Read post →Why your MTTR got worse in 2026
More tools should mean faster debugging. It doesn't.
Read post →Your SOC2 audit is going to find your observability gaps
Compliance isn't just paperwork. Auditors want proof you can detect incidents.
Read post →What I learned managing 50+ microservices
The hard lessons from running a large distributed system that nobody warned me about.
Read post →Why your dashboards lie to you
HTTP 200 doesn't mean the checkout worked. Here's what's actually happening.
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