#Infrastructure
4 articles on Infrastructure. Practical notes, patterns, and lessons from building software.
Building a Production Monitoring and Observability Stack
Monitoring tells you something is broken. Observability tells you why. Here's the stack and methodology I use to instrument production systems — from metrics and logs to traces and alerting that doesn't wake you up at 3 AM for nothing.
System Design Patterns Every Senior Engineer Should Know
Essential system design patterns for senior engineers, covering load balancing, caching strategies, database sharding, message queues, rate limiting, circuit breaker, CQRS, and event sourcing with practical architectural examples.
CI/CD Pipeline Design: Principles for Reliable Deployments
A well-designed CI/CD pipeline is the backbone of engineering velocity. Here are the design principles I follow after building and maintaining pipelines for teams ranging from 3 to 50 developers.
Docker Compose to Kubernetes: A Practical Migration Guide
Migrating from Docker Compose to Kubernetes doesn't have to be a big-bang rewrite. Here's the incremental approach I've used across three production migrations — with real configs and hard-won lessons.