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More telemetry makes reliability worse (until you fix the loop)
Every reliability engineer eventually learns the same painful truth: you can have a thousand dashboards showing you xyz and still miss the real signal.
 • Ash Patel
Real DevOps happens between commits, not pipelines
Your CI/CD runs faster than your feedback.
 • Ash Patel
Humans, the pesky side of system design
Most reliability engineers hear ‘system design’ and picture diagrams wrangling load balancers, queues, and failover zones.
 • Ash Patel
You (and AI) can't automate reliability away
What if the hardest part of reliability has nothing to do with tooling or automation?
 • Ash Patel
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Reliability engineers are the best SDLC problem solvers because...
they look at the system with fresh eyes and can spot patterns people too close to the problem have learned to ignore. I'll cover how you can do this…
 • Ash Patel
What a Slovak test engineer taught me about SRE career growth in a post-ZIRP world
This post was inspired by my chance meeting with a Slovak test engineer who had corporates fighting to hire him and sponsor his high-salary migration in…
 • Ash Patel
AWS us-east-1 sneezed, the world felt its breeze
Race conditions 101, a global ripple, and looking at our hidden dependencies. We'll go through questions, like "Why did one region dropping cause global…
 • Ash Patel
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