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Choosing Your Observability Datastore: A Business Proposition, Not a Marketing Feature.

6d ago · 15 min read · It’s been quite some time now, working in the observability space. Most of my time has been spent talking to engineers about how they are navigating observability at their organizations and the hurdle

Loading... Loading... Loading: How an ISP Block Taught Me to Stop Ignoring DNS Monitoring

Mar 5 · 7 min read · So, I was sitting at my desk a few mornings ago, just going through the usual routine with a cup of coffee in hand, clearing some logs, trying to push a tiny hotfix, and suddenly, everything just stop

Database Sharding vs Partitioning

Feb 25 · 15 min read · Let me start with a little confession, when I first started my engineering journey, I genuinely used to think database partitioning and sharding were the exact same thing. Like, literally the same con

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Jan 7 · 1 min read · testing

How to OTel: Hands-On with the OpenTelemetry Demo

Jul 5, 2025 · 20 min read · Imagine you’re running a modern ecommerce application buzzing with services talking to each other, users add products to cart, checkout happens, payments get processed, orders get packed, shipments go out the door. It’s distributed. It’s messy. And t...