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Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
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2w ago
Load Testing in Production: How We Do It Safely
Why Staging Load Tests Lie We ran perfect load tests in staging. 10,000 requests per...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
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2w ago
Effective On-Call Rotations: Lessons From Building Fair Schedules
The Rotation Nobody Wants Our on-call rotation was a spreadsheet. Updated manually....
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
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2w ago
GitOps for Infrastructure: How We Deploy With Zero SSH
The Last Time I Used SSH I haven't SSH'd into a production server in 14 months. Not...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
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3w ago
Terraform at Scale: Lessons from Managing 500+ Resources
When Terraform Gets Slow Our Terraform state file grew to 500+ resources. Plans took 8...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
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3w ago
Monitoring Costs Are Out of Control — Here's How to Fix It
The $50K/Month Monitoring Bill I audited our monitoring stack last quarter. The total cost...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
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1mo ago
3am Incident Response: What I Learned from 200+ Pages
The First 5 Minutes Matter Most I've been paged over 200 times in my career. The pattern...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
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1mo ago
I Reduced Our Alert Volume by 90% — Here's the Playbook
The Night I Almost Quit Three months into my SRE role, I was averaging 47 alerts per...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
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1mo ago
The On-Call Schedule Math Nobody Does
Most on-call schedules are designed in a slack thread, in 20 minutes, by whoever drew the short...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
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1mo ago
Chaos Engineering Is Theater Without These Three Things
Chaos engineering has a credibility problem. Half the teams that adopt it are doing it because it's...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
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1mo ago
Error Budget Policies That Hold Leadership Accountable
Error budgets are useless without a policy. 'We're out of error budget' should trigger consequences....
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
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1mo ago
Building Trust with Product Teams as an SRE
SRE teams that fight with product teams don't get things done. SRE teams that get along with product...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
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1mo ago
Instrumenting Legacy Code Without Rewriting It
You inherit a 12-year-old service with no observability. You can't rewrite it. You need to make it...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
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1mo ago
The Case for a Dedicated Reliability Engineer
Many engineering teams treat reliability as 'everyone's responsibility.' In practice, that means it's...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
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2mo ago
Zero-Downtime Database Migrations
Database migrations without downtime are a superpower. Here's the playbook that's survived dozens of...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
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2mo ago
How We Killed Our Worst Alert (And What We Learned)
For two years, one alert dominated our on-call pages. It fired roughly 40% of all pages. Nobody had...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
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2mo ago
Scaling On-Call When You Only Have 5 Engineers
On-call is brutal at small scale. Every engineer takes 1 week in 5. You get woken up once a week....
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
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2mo ago
The Silent Outage: Monitoring What You Can't See
The worst kind of outage is one nobody notices. Your metrics are green. Your dashboards are fine....
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
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2mo ago
SRE Maturity Models: Where Is Your Team?
Where is your SRE team on the maturity curve? I've worked with teams at every stage. Here's a rough...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
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2mo ago
The SRE Interview: Questions I Actually Ask
I've interviewed maybe 300 SRE candidates over the years. Most interviews are bad. Leetcode for...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
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2mo ago
Why SLIs Matter More Than SLOs
SLOs get all the attention. I want to argue that your SLIs are more important. Here's the thing: an...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
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2mo ago
The PagerDuty Migration Playbook
Migrating from PagerDuty is not a weekend project. I learned this the hard way. Here's the playbook I...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
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2mo ago
Building Your First Runbook: A Template That Actually Works
Most runbooks are useless. Either they're too abstract ('check the logs') or they're a 40-page...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
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3mo ago
Observability as Code: Managing Dashboards and Alerts with Terraform
The Problem with Click-Ops Dashboards Your team has 200 dashboards. You don't know who...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
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3mo ago
Service Level Objectives for Complex Microservices
Why SLOs Break in Microservices A SLO that works for a monolith often collapses when you...
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