The Path from 400ms to 50ms: A Performance Optimization Journey
April 14, 2022
A detailed walkthrough of systematic performance optimization that achieved 8x latency improvement through measurement, analysis, and targeted fixes.
Managing 60+ Microservices: Lessons from Large-Scale Systems
March 17, 2022
Practical strategies for operating dozens of microservices, from service mesh to observability, deployment automation, and organizational patterns that work.
eBPF: The Future of Observability and Performance Monitoring
August 19, 2021
Exploring eBPF technology for deep system observability, performance monitoring, and network analysis without kernel modifications or application changes.
Distributed Tracing at Scale: Architecture and Design Patterns
August 17, 2020
Architectural approaches to implementing distributed tracing across thousands of services including sampling strategies, storage patterns, and query optimization
Observability-Driven Development: Building Systems for Production Understanding
April 20, 2020
Architectural approaches to embedding observability into system design from inception, enabling production debugging and operational insights
Remote-First Engineering Culture: Lessons from Distributed Teams
January 15, 2020
Building effective remote engineering teams with cloud-native practices, asynchronous collaboration, and robust communication patterns
2019 Year in Review: Production Cloud-Native at Scale
December 27, 2019
Lessons learned running cloud-native infrastructure in production throughout 2019
Progressive Delivery: Canary Deployments and Feature Flags
November 19, 2019
Implementing safe deployment strategies with gradual rollouts
Event-Driven Architectures: Messaging Patterns at Scale
October 21, 2019
Building resilient event-driven systems with message queues and streams
Cloud Cost Optimization: FinOps for Kubernetes
September 16, 2019
Strategies for reducing cloud spending while maintaining performance
Debugging Distributed Systems: Tools and Methodologies
August 19, 2019
Systematic approaches to debugging complex distributed applications
Site Reliability Engineering Practices: SLOs, Error Budgets, and On-Call
July 23, 2019
Implementing SRE principles for reliable cloud-native services
Service Mesh Observability: Deep Insights into Microservices Traffic
March 19, 2019
Leveraging service mesh capabilities for comprehensive observability across distributed microservices architectures
2018 Year in Review: Cloud-Native Reaches Maturity
December 28, 2018
Reflecting on the major milestones, trends, and lessons learned in cloud-native technologies throughout 2018
The Evolution of Cloud-Native Monitoring: From Metrics to Observability
September 17, 2018
How monitoring practices have evolved in cloud-native environments, embracing metrics, logs, traces, and the observability mindset
Chaos Engineering Fundamentals: Building Resilient Distributed Systems
July 25, 2018
An introduction to chaos engineering principles and practices for testing and improving system resilience in production environments
Running Service Mesh in Production: Lessons from the Trenches
March 20, 2018
Real-world experiences and practical guidance for deploying Istio and Linkerd service meshes in production environments
2017 Year in Review: Cloud-Native Evolution and Security Maturity
December 28, 2017
Reflecting on a transformative year in cloud-native infrastructure, security practices, and distributed systems
Container Orchestration Best Practices: Running Production Workloads
November 21, 2017
Practical lessons learned from running containerized applications in production with Kubernetes and other orchestration platforms
Unified Observability: Metrics, Logs, and Traces Together
September 20, 2017
How to build a comprehensive observability strategy that unifies metrics, logs, and distributed traces for effective system understanding
Distributed Tracing with OpenTracing: Making Sense of Microservices
April 20, 2017
A practical guide to implementing distributed tracing using OpenTracing to debug and understand complex microservices interactions
Service Mesh: A New Layer for Microservices Communication
March 15, 2017
Understanding service mesh architecture and how it solves critical challenges in microservices communication, security, and observability
Observability in Distributed Systems: Beyond Logging and Monitoring
September 22, 2016
Building comprehensive observability into microservices architectures with distributed tracing, metrics, and structured logging to understand complex system behavior.
Building Observability with the ELK Stack: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana
July 30, 2015
Implementing centralized logging and monitoring for distributed systems using the ELK stack, with practical patterns for security services and microservices.