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My love for Observability goes beyond words - it's truly unparalleled.
An industry now exists to shave the observability invoice. That is financial engineering. The real fix is deciding what each signal is for.
Jul 12, 2026
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3 min read
The moment an AI agent acts, someone owns the outcome. Most teams have not said who.
Jul 5, 2026
5 min read
Strip away the vendor gloss and the message from the floor was steady, honest, and unglamorous.
Jul 3, 2026
4 min read
A single map of the tools, and the honest catch on every piece.
Jul 1, 2026
1 min read
The open-source standard for metrics, in plain English, and where it stops.
2 min read
The dashboard layer that ties your observability together, and what it is not.
Grafana's logs backend, in plain English, and the trade-off at its heart.
The tracing backend behind your traces, in plain English, and where OpenTelemetry fits.
Operational judgement you can act on, whether you build it or lead it, plus the few signals worth your time. Starting with the deal that merged security and observability.
One style won't survive pressure. Your job is choosing the right mode at the right moment.
Jun 30, 2026
Exit time belongs on the board beside RTO and RPO. Most teams have never measured it.
Jun 28, 2026
Vendors sell autonomous operations. The Bank of England found that 2% of AI use cases run fully autonomously. That gap is correct, and here is how to climb it.
Jun 7, 2026
9 min read
$3.35bn says security and observability are one market. A survey of 506 leaders says the teams aren't. The gap is where this goes wrong.
Jun 3, 2026
Heroism is the polite word for a system that wasn't positioned. Here's the merge-time habit that fixes it.
Jun 1, 2026
Reliability numbers never climb in a straight line. One bad month is not a failed strategy.
May 25, 2026
A short note on standards, drift, and why the line you refuse to cross is often where real leadership begins.
May 18, 2026
Auto-remediation is replacing the 3 AM scramble. But toil is rising, MTTR is worsening, and the remaining 20% of incidents just got harder.
Feb 15, 2026
11 min read
What 2025's cloud failures revealed about the gap between system speed and leadership visibility
Feb 13, 2026
7 min read
A 2 minute note on staying steady in IT Ops by filtering noise and making decisions from truth.
Feb 8, 2026
A 2 minute note on the fastest way to improve incident outcomes without adding more dashboards.
Feb 3, 2026
The quietest person often has the earliest signal. Inclusion is performance, not politeness
Jan 27, 2026
Outages are the baseline. Resilience is how fast you regain control when it happens.
Jan 20, 2026
Three quick checks to stop drift, confusion, and quiet failure.
Jan 13, 2026
Merry Christmas, and thank you for keeping this alive
Dec 22, 2025
How to measure AI reliability when answers aren't deterministic.
Nov 9, 2025
6 min read
