How Mercado Libre rebuilt its observability platform on ClickHouse Cloud with 50x faster trace queries | ClickHouse

How Mercado Libre rebuilt its observability platform on ClickHouse Cloud, cutting trace query times from over five minutes to about four seconds (a 50x speedup) with up to 89% compression while…

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Modern software architecture means nobody has the whole picture. To assemble one in an emergency, you need an incident tech lead.

Modern software architectures are designed so nobody has to understand the whole system. The hardest incidents are when that strategy fails, and generating that understanding on demand takes…

greatcircle.com

I created a playground for 110 database systems | ClickHouse

You can choose any of these hundred database systems and run queries. You can create tables and databases, insert data, drop tables, etc. Every database comes with a preloaded dataset of 100 million…

clickhouse.com

Integrating Kubescape into Your CI/CD Pipeline - Kubescape

Kubernetes security should not be an afterthought. By integrating Kubescape into your CI/CD pipeline, you can catch misconfigurations and compliance violations before they reach production. This post…

kubescape.io

Scaling Kubernetes pods with KEDA based on Amazon SQS queue depth

In event-driven Kubernetes architectures, CPU and memory utilization often fail to reflect real system pressure. A worker pod may sit idle from a CPU perspective while thousands of messages pile up…

cncf.io

Discovered Stacks: One Place for All Your Infrastructure

Discovered Stacks: Pulumi Cloud now models your CloudFormation and ARM deployments as Pulumi IaC stacks, with a built-in migration path.

pulumi.com

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How Jump Trading uses ClickHouse with Iceberg for analytics | ClickHouse

Jump Trading captures petabyte-scale financial trading logs on a self-managed ClickHouse platform, where zero data loss and low latency are critical requirements.

clickhouse.com

Eval-driven development: Lessons from evaluating GenAI at scale

How Airbnb teams build trustworthy Generative AI products by treating evaluation as a first-class engineering discipline; not an…

medium.com

Google withdraws Earth AI tool after misinformation warnings

Experts told BBC Verify Google's new feature which let people generate fake satellite images could be misused.

bbc.com

Enterprise AI Enablement: Salesforce's Agentic Strategy

Learn how Salesforce scaled enterprise AI adoption with an agentic engineering enablement strategy built on shared learning and behavior change.

engineering.salesforce.com

Stacked pull requests are now in public preview - GitHub Changelog

Stacked pull requests break large changes into small, reviewable pull requests. They’re an ordered series of pull requests that each represent focused layers of your change. With stacks, you can…

github.blog

GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix

Authors: Ying Li, Arjun Rao, Shradha Sehgal

netflixtechblog.com

Runbooks + RAG: How I Gave My AI SRE Agent the Context It Was Missing | HackerNoon

Learn how retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) helps AI SRE agents use runbooks, postmortems, and documentation to investigate real production incidents.

hackernoon.com

Shift from Argo CD to Flux CD: Rethinking GitOps for the Secure Enterprise

The six golden rules of secure GitOps deployments, and how Flux CD's architecture natively enforces them.

control-plane.io

Making 768 servers look like 1 — PlanetScale

How to make 768 distinct Postgres servers look like 1 to your applications.

planetscale.com

Transforming How We Run Kafka at Honeycomb

How we pulled off a large-scale Kafka migration project by learning from past mistakes, prioritizing rollback safety, and building shared knowledge.

honeycomb.io

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Reliability Is Measured in Minutes. It Should Be Priced in Dollars.

Reliability metrics measure minutes, not money. Why MTTR, DORA, and SLOs fall short, and how to price reliability in dollars leaders can defend.

reliabilityeconomics.com

Your service catalog is already wrong

Every service catalog is declared by hand and drifts from reality within weeks. That was a productivity tax when humans read it. Now that agents act on it, a stale catalog is a production risk. The fi

thereliabilityengineering.substack.com

Distributed LLM Inference on Kubernetes: Configuring KServe and llm-d

Learn how to serve LLMs on Kubernetes with KServe and vLLM. A hands-on guide to configuring KServe for distributed inference and model routing.

cloudnativedeepdive.com

Building Service Topology at Scale: Architecture, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

By Parth Jain, Rakesh Sukumar, Yingwu Zhao, Renzo Sanchez-Silva & Nathan Fisher. A deep dive into the engineering challenges of building a…

netflixtechblog.com

The incident metrics mirage

Most incident metrics are a mirage: they look like they're telling you something useful, but they're actively misleading you. Goodhart's Law, MTTR, and what fire departments get right about setting…

greatcircle.com

https://sre.google/resources/practices-and-processes/ai-engineering-reliable-operations/

AI in SRE: How Google is Engineering the Future of Reliable Operations

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