HRHeloise Reina Viegasinheloise.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 6 min readInvestigating silent backend degradation using flow-level observabilityKubernetes is very good at telling you when something is down. It's much less useful at telling you when something is quietly getting worse. There's a class of failure where a backend is still running10
HRHeloise Reina Viegasinheloise.hashnode.dev·Jul 5 · 16 min readEFK on EKS: 4 Configuration Decisions That Prevent Production FailuresThis is a companion to my previous article on inheriting and fixing a broken EFK stack. That article focused on what breaks in production. This one focuses on the configuration decisions that prevent 10
HRHeloise Reina Viegasinheloise.hashnode.dev·Jun 28 · 17 min readEFK on Kubernetes: From Broken Stack to Production-Ready LoggingMost EFK articles start with a clean environment and walk you through a perfect setup. This one doesn't. This article is about inheriting a running EFK stack on AKS that looked healthy, discovering it10
HRHeloise Reina Viegasinheloise.hashnode.dev·Jun 23 · 7 min readBuilding Secure Kubernetes Guardrails on EKS with OPA Gatekeeper and GitOpsOver the past few weeks, I’ve been exploring Kubernetes policy enforcement and GitOps to deepen my understanding beyond traditional CI/CD and infrastructure automation. As part of this, I built a smal00
HRHeloise Reina Viegasinheloise.hashnode.dev·Jun 8 · 9 min readInside an AWS Web RequestWhen a user types https://seqas.online into a browser, what actually happens before the application appears on the screen? Understanding the entire request lifecycle is far more valuable than memoriz00