ENGINEERING DOMAIN
Infrastructure & Reliability
Linux, orchestration, deployment systems, observability and platform operations.
Linux, orchestration, deployment systems, observability and platform operations.
1 projects · 21 pieces of writing
Production Observability & Alert ValidationMetrics, logs, probes and alerting validated by controlled failures instead of dashboard appearance alone.
Deployment vs Service: The Two Kubernetes Objects Voiceware Needed FirstSystems engineering across embedded firmware, real-time communications, Linux infrastructure, networking and observability.
From YAML Files to an Operating Model: The Voiceware ShiftSystems engineering across embedded firmware, real-time communications, Linux infrastructure, networking and observability.
Git Became Part of the Voiceware Control PlaneSystems engineering across embedded firmware, real-time communications, Linux infrastructure, networking and observability.
How Voiceware Grew From a Web-App Chart Into a Multi-Service Deployment RepositorySystems engineering across embedded firmware, real-time communications, Linux infrastructure, networking and observability.
Stateful Nomad Failover Gets Hard at the CSI Volume BoundaryNomad can decide that an allocation belongs on another node before the storage system has safely detached, unpublished, and made its volume available there. Scheduler failover and storage failover are connected state machines.
OpenTelemetry Cardinality Is a Data-Model Problem, Not Just a Cost ProblemHigh-cardinality metrics are usually discussed as a billing problem. In OpenTelemetry they can also change what dashboards, alerts, and SLO queries are able to see.
Passkeys Are Cryptographically Simple Compared With Their UX State MachineWebAuthn can prove possession of a scoped private key. The product still has to reason about synced credentials, discoverable accounts, conditional UI, recovery, re-registration, and what the browser chooses to show.
An SBOM Tells You What You Shipped; It Does Not Prove You Shipped the Right ThingAn SBOM inventories components. Supply-chain trust also needs provenance, build identity, signatures, policy, artifact verification, and release evidence that connects source to the bytes actually deployed.
The Most Useful Artifact in Voiceware Was the Deployment HistorySystems engineering across embedded firmware, real-time communications, Linux infrastructure, networking and observability.
The Real Architecture Work Was Finding Voiceware’s Runtime BoundariesSystems engineering across embedded firmware, real-time communications, Linux infrastructure, networking and observability.
The Repository Layout That Made Voiceware Easier to Reason AboutSystems engineering across embedded firmware, real-time communications, Linux infrastructure, networking and observability.
The Trade-Off of Deploying Voiceware Into the default NamespaceSystems engineering across embedded firmware, real-time communications, Linux infrastructure, networking and observability.
The Voiceware Deployment Template and the Value of Boring RepetitionSystems engineering across embedded firmware, real-time communications, Linux infrastructure, networking and observability.
The Voiceware Service Template: Small YAML, Big ResponsibilitySystems engineering across embedded firmware, real-time communications, Linux infrastructure, networking and observability.
Voiceware Started With One Deployable Service, Not a “Platform”Systems engineering across embedded firmware, real-time communications, Linux infrastructure, networking and observability.
What a “Deployment Platform” Meant in VoicewareSystems engineering across embedded firmware, real-time communications, Linux infrastructure, networking and observability.
What replicaCount Really Means in a Voiceware Helm ChartSystems engineering across embedded firmware, real-time communications, Linux infrastructure, networking and observability.
Why Chart.Name Was a Useful Naming PrimitiveSystems engineering across embedded firmware, real-time communications, Linux infrastructure, networking and observability.
Why I Kept Audio, Workers, Redis, Nginx, and the Web App SeparateSystems engineering across embedded firmware, real-time communications, Linux infrastructure, networking and observability.
Why I Put Voiceware Runtime Knobs in values.yamlSystems engineering across embedded firmware, real-time communications, Linux infrastructure, networking and observability.
Why Voiceware Needed More Than Docker Compose ThinkingSystems engineering across embedded firmware, real-time communications, Linux infrastructure, networking and observability.