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The Post-Mortem Culture War: The Personal Cost of Learning From…
Learning from mistakes is a hard road. Look at the personal price tag behind post-mortem culture, the shift from blame to learning, and the individual…
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Untangling the Inheritance: The Hidden Burden of Undocumented Systems
Learn how to untangle the hidden burden of undocumented systems you run into in your work or personal life. Step-by-step strategies and practical fixes for…
Life
Midnight 'Swap Storm': An SRE's Memory Nightmare
Through an SRE's eyes, look at the 'Swap Storm' nightmare that paralyzes systems and causes sleepless nights — and how I made it through.
Life
Alarm Fatigue: The Moments When Silent Screams Go Unheard
Look at the 'alarm fatigue' phenomenon — the mental exhaustion of constant notifications — and learn how to deal with it in the digital age.
Tutorials
The Fragility of the Distributed Database Shard Key
I unpack the critical role of the shard key in distributed databases, the risks it carries (hotspots, data skew), and the strategies to keep that fragility…
Tutorials
The Hidden Communication Crisis in Container Networks: CNI Wars
Explore the critical role of CNI in Kubernetes environments, the different CNI options, and the hidden crises around performance, security, and complexity…
Tutorials
The Anatomy of Unscalable Database Decisions in System Architecture
A deep look at the long-term effects of database choices in system architecture and the scalability traps they create. The cost of bad decisions and…
Tutorials
The Prometheus High Cardinality Crisis: A Silent Metric Invasion
A guide to understanding, detecting, and managing the high cardinality crisis in Prometheus. Optimize your metrics to keep system performance and costs under…
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An Old Engineer's Notebook: The Automation Nightmare
In a world where we keep pushing the limits of automation, what is the cost of losing the human factor? Technology and the future from an old engineer's…
Career
The Failover Paradox: Bringing Down a System While Trying to Save It
Learn how you can unintentionally take your systems down while trying to save them, and how to avoid the Failover Paradox.
Career
The Dark Side of Technology: The Unscalable API Gateway Wars
An in-depth guide to API gateway scaling problems, the complexity of system architecture, and how these wars affect your career.
Career
State Management in the Cloud: An SRE's Lost Battles
Explore the challenges of state management in cloud environments and the battles fought in this space, told from an SRE's perspective.
Career
The Legacy of an Old Internal Load Balancer: An Engineer's Test
An old internal load balancer fails unexpectedly — and shapes the technical and career-defining test it puts an engineer through.
Technology
Certificate Expiry: The Silent Security Bombs in Production
The critical security and operational risks that expiring certificates cause in production environments, why they slip through the cracks, and effective…
Technology
Critical DNS Resolution Failure: The Invisible Network Disaster
Take an in-depth look at the invisible network disasters caused by DNS resolution failures and the impact this critical issue has on businesses.
Technology
The Virtual Network Gateway Performance Mystery: A Hidden…
We investigate the overlooked performance bottlenecks of virtual network gateways in production. This article covers why they matter, the hidden problems…
Tutorials
Hidden Kernel Panic Battles: System Betrayal in Production
A field guide to understanding, preventing, and recovering from kernel panics in production. How to keep your systems stable.
Tutorials
Spot Instance Optimization: A Hidden Cost Trap in Production
While Spot Instances offer cost savings in cloud computing, in production environments they can create hidden cost traps with unexpected interruptions. In…
Tutorials
Redis Sharding: The Hidden Wars in Production and Its Dark Side
Explore the complexity, challenges, and hidden production battles of Redis sharding. We shed light on the dark side of sharding.
Tutorials
Hunting Hidden Blackholes in Production Networks: An Anatomy of…
Find the invisible blackholes in your production network. Understand why traffic disappears, and walk through how to debug it step by step.
Career
From Monolith to Microservices: The DevOps Culture Wars
Migrating from monolithic architecture to microservices isn't just a technical transformation — it's a deep cultural shift. Through DevOps principles, in…
Career
The Hidden Trap of Auto-Scaling: A Capacity Engineer's…
Learn about the unexpected challenges of auto-scaling and how, as a capacity engineer, you can avoid these traps.
Technology
The Silent Betrayal of Reverse Proxy Buffer Settings
Discover the hidden impact of reverse proxy buffer settings on performance and security. Optimization tips and tricks on the Mustafa Erbay blog!
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Cloudflare HTML Cache Stuck at 1.1%: Recovery with Nginx map
Cloudflare cache was stuck at 1.1%. Astro Node adapter returns max-age=0 for HTML. Override based on content-type via nginx map directive.