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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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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...

9 days 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...

17 days ago

DORA metrics demystified — measuring what actually matters in delivery

Every concept, pattern, and practice this series has covered ultimately comes back to the same question: is the engineering organisation getting better? Better at delivering software. Better at maintaining reliability. Better at recovering...

24 days ago

Infrastructure as code for reliability — Terraform patterns that scale

Every reliability discipline this series has covered lives on top of infrastructure. The Kubernetes clusters that run the workloads, the vSphere environment those clusters run on, the load balancers that distribute traffic, the networking t...

a month ago
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Capacity planning as a continuous SLO feedback loop

Capacity planning in most engineering organisations exists as a periodic project. Once a quarter, sometimes once a year, a team runs load tests, produces a report estimating how much traffic the system can handle, compares that estimate to...

a month ago

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