Engineering Notes

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Deep dives, system design breakdowns, and lessons learned from building and operating cloud infrastructure at scale.

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Designing for Scale: Lessons from Managing a Large Kubernetes Fleet

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What changes when you go from a handful of clusters to a fleet — and the design habits that keep it manageable.

The Anatomy of a Sev2: From Page to Resolution

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A walk through the lifecycle of a significant incident — detection, triage, mitigation, and the review that makes the next one shorter.

Beyond the Basics: Multi-Tenant Workloads on Kubernetes

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Namespaces are where multi-tenancy starts, not where it ends. Isolation, fairness, and noisy neighbours in shared clusters.

Understanding Capacity Management in Cloud Infrastructure

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Capacity is the quiet constraint behind every reliability story. How to think about headroom, demand, and the cost of being wrong in either direction.

Reliability Engineering: Designing for Failure

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Every component will fail eventually. The question is whether the system was designed to expect it.

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