Quality vs speed in the AI fast lane: when to floor it, and when to ride the brakes
We’re all feeling it: AI has turned the workday into a highway. Drafts appear in seconds. Code scaffolds itself. Slides assemble like Lego bricks. It’s thrilling (and a little terrifying)...
When Too Many Tools Become the Job: Taming Tool Sprawl and Decision Paralysis in 2025
You hop into standup and the first 15 minutes vanish debating which issue tracker to use for a one-week spike. By the time everyone agrees to “circle back,” the meeting...
User Experience Is the Reliability Metric Now
Reliability used to mean green dashboards: 99.9% uptime, low error rates, mean time to recovery going the right way. But users don’t click dashboards—they try to complete tasks. If they...
Observability in 2025: Tracing, Telemetry, and Reliability Metrics that Actually Help
If you’re standing up (or modernizing) observability this year, you’re doing it in a world where OpenTelemetry (OTel) is the lingua franca, cloud providers accept OTLP directly, and AI/LLM features...
A Sarcastics Guide to eBPF, the Ultimate Kubernetes Overlord
If you’ve been anywhere near the swirling maelstrom of cloud-native hype recently, you’ve likely been accosted by three letters: eBPF. It’s the buzzword du jour, the magic pixie dust promised...
Argo Rollouts vs. Flagger: The Ultimate Kubernetes Canary Cage Match
Argo Rollouts vs. Flagger: The Ultimate Kubernetes Canary Cage Match Let’s be honest. Throwing a new version of your application into production and just hoping it works is the software...
Infrastructure as code with Terraform CDK
Why infrastructure as code? As a response to the fast changing pace of nowadays market, development teams should spend less time on routine drudgery, but even with modern tools, the...
Static Container Scanning with Clair and Klar (or Trivy)
Introduction Recently I came across this eye-opening post about native security scanning in Amazon’s Elastic Container Registry (ECR), and inspired by the architecture proposed by the authors I decided to...