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Chronicles of a SRE

Nijo George Payyappilly

Weekly dispatches on SRE culture, observability, and automation — from inside a real organisation making it up as it goes, guided by Google SRE principles and a relentless bias toward automation over toil.

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Latest Issues

Influencing SRE adoption in a traditional ops organisation

The most-requested topic in this series has never been about Kubernetes patterns, Prometheus queries, or Argo CD configuration. It has been this: how do you actually get SRE practices adopted in an organisation that was not designed for the...

7 days ago
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Automated postmortem drafting — AI as your on-call scribe

The previous blogs have been mostly technical: the framework for reliability, the observability stack, the incident response machinery, the platform foundation, and — most recently — AI-assisted triage. This one sits at the boundary between...

14 days ago

AI-assisted log triage — real patterns, real limits

The thirteen weeks from Week 27 to Week 39 have covered chaos engineering, load testing, platform engineering, service catalogs, Kubernetes patterns, Istio, policy as code, capacity planning, infrastructure as code, DORA metrics, error budg...

21 days ago

SLO dashboards that leadership and engineers both trust

At some point in the SRE journey, the dashboard problem surfaces in a specific and uncomfortable way. The team has built dashboards they trust. Engineers use them to investigate incidents, track trends, and understand whether a change impro...

a month ago

Error budget policies in practice — who decides to stop shipping?

Week 7 introduced error budgets as engineering decision tools. The concept is elegant: if the SLO permits 0.1% of requests to fail, then the team has a budget of 0.1% failure to spend. Spend it on deployments, experiments, and engineering v...

a month ago

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