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First login mixes network, identity, root privileges, Nix, and error recovery. At some point, continuing in shell was more complicated than writing a small SwiftUI app with a real state machine.
Read →Alloy, VictoriaMetrics, Tempo, Loki, and Grafana give a lot of control. They also demand capacity planning, rules, storage, and real operations.
Read →A dimension that is useful in a trace can become a disaster in a metric. Field notes on cardinality, PII, and sampling.
Read →On a brownfield application, the challenge was not perfect instrumentation service by service, but giving teams a shared framework they could apply quickly.
Read →I’m publishing a Kind workshop (Cilium, Envoy Gateway, Flagger) where attendees patch YAML to see who actually decides traffic.
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