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September 3, 2026
Incident Scorecard5.3 / 10GitHub incident: autoscaling misconfiguration and retry storm
GitHub's August 17 outage took out Pull Requests, Actions, and Copilot for nearly eight hours. An incident scorecard on how they detected, communicated, and recovered.
July 4, 2026
AI loves big PRs, your engineers don’t
AI generates 1000+ line pull requests faster than humans can review them. How stacked branches keep PRs small when Git will not manage the dependencies.
March 1, 2026
Learnings from using Claude for PR reviews
Automating code review with claude-code-action in GitHub Actions: why running reviews in the PR beats local agents, and what a separate reviewer catches.
February 26, 2026
CI/CD tiered rollouts to control blast radius
Deploy code to production gradually across regions, not all at once. A tiered rollout strategy with CI/CD job dependencies limits blast radius while keeping deployment velocity high.
February 20, 2026
Canary Deployments with Argo
Progressive delivery with Argo Rollouts: canary strategy configuration, automated rollback with Prometheus-backed AnalysisTemplates, and low-traffic caveats.
February 16, 2026
I Called My Claude Coding Agent Incompetent
Does being rude to your AI coding agent actually hurt its performance? I ran an experiment with Claude Opus 4.6 to find out.
February 9, 2026
Observability 101: Start with Logs
Start your observability journey with logs, not complex distributed tracing. A practical guide to building effective monitoring with tools you already have.
February 6, 2026
Rollback First, Ask Questions Later
The fastest way to resolve production incidents: rollback first, investigate later. Lessons from a principal engineer on reducing MTTR.
February 3, 2026
Your Alerts Are Lying to You: Why More Monitoring Won’t Save Your On-Call Engineers
Why adding more monitoring won't fix your on-call problems. The uncomfortable truth about alerting strategies and how to build alerts that actually matter.
May 2, 2023
Grafana vs. Prometheus Agent
Compare Grafana Agent and Prometheus Agent for metrics collection. Key differences in architecture, use cases, and when to choose each for your observability stack.
May 13, 2018
Think about solutions, not code
Before writing code, understand the problem. How design thinking and solution-first approaches lead to better software engineering outcomes.