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A monthly dispatch on platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, and cloud infrastructure. Real problems, real solutions, no fluff.
What You'll Get Each Month
One email per month. Every issue covers a single infrastructure topic in depth, plus quick wins you can ship the same day. Written for engineers who build and operate production systems.
Deep Dives
Incident teardowns, architecture decisions, and tool evaluations with real production context.
Quick Wins
Actionable tips with code snippets and config examples you can use immediately.
Curated Links
Post-mortems, RFCs, and technical posts worth your time, with annotations on why.
Monthly Challenge
A specific experiment to run in your own environment to improve reliability or observability.
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Topics We Cover
Practical content across the infrastructure stack, written from hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, observability stacks, and cloud platforms.
Platform Engineering
Internal developer portals, golden paths, self-service infrastructure, and platform team metrics.
DevOps & CI/CD
Pipeline optimization, monorepo build strategies, deployment patterns, and feature flag infrastructure.
SRE & Reliability
Error budgets, on-call design, chaos engineering, incident response, and SLO-based alerting.
Cloud Engineering
Cost optimization, IaC patterns, multi-cloud networking, and cloud provider comparisons without vendor bias.
What an Issue Looks Like
Here's a preview of a typical newsletter issue.
## Deep Dive: The Kubernetes DNS Bug That Wasted 40 Hours
How the default ndots:5 setting caused cascading DNS failures under load, the misleading metrics that sent us down the wrong path, and the two-line fix that resolved it.
## Quick Wins
- Terraform state backup one-liner before every apply
- PromQL query to find unused Grafana dashboards
- Pre-commit hook for secrets scanning in monorepos
## What We're Reading
- Cloudflare's routing incident post-mortem
- OpenTelemetry's new tail-sampling processor
- Google SRE on SLO-based alerting
## Try This Month
Check your CoreDNS cache hit rate. Below 80%? You're hammering upstream resolvers unnecessarily.
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