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Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
8h ago
The Future of SRE: What the Next 5 Years Look Like
Where is SRE going? I've been watching the trends closely. Here's my best guess for the next 5...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
2d ago
Incident Automation: What to Automate, What to Leave to Humans
Incident response automation is a trap. Some things should be automated. Some things absolutely...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
3d ago
Infrastructure Drift: Detecting and Preventing It
Your Terraform says the firewall rule is A. The cloud console says it's B. Someone changed it...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
4d ago
The Engineer Who Owns Nothing: A Cautionary Tale
I'm going to tell you about an engineer I worked with. Call him Mark. Mark was talented, well-liked,...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
5d 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
1w ago
Capacity Planning for Startups
Capacity planning sounds like enterprise spreadsheet work. For a startup, it's 'don't get embarrassed...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
1w 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
2w 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
2w 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
2w 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
2w ago
API Rate Limiting: Patterns That Scale
Rate limiting is one of those topics where everyone knows the basics and almost nobody gets it right...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
2w ago
Kubernetes Upgrades Without Downtime
Kubernetes upgrades used to terrify me. Then I learned to do them boringly. Here's the process. ...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
3w 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
3w ago
The Reliability Roadmap: A 90-Day Plan for New SRE Teams
New SRE team at your company? Here's a 90-day plan I've used twice. It works because it balances...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
3w 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
3w ago
DNS: The SRE's Most Underrated Skill
I've seen more outages caused by DNS than by code. And it's always the same story: the team shipped,...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
3w 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
4w ago
Why Every SRE Should Learn a Little Rust
I'm not saying rewrite your stack in Rust. I'm saying: learn enough to read it. Here's why, from...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
4w ago
How We Built Our Own Incident Management System
A couple of years ago we built our own incident management system instead of buying one. I'd do it...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
1mo ago
The Role of Platform Engineering in a Startup
Platform engineering sounds like a big-company thing. But I think every startup past 20 engineers...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
1mo ago
Building Dashboards People Actually Use
I've built dozens of dashboards. Most have been ignored. A few have been used constantly. The...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
1mo 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
1mo ago
The Art of Writing a Good Post-Mortem
A good post-mortem is a piece of technical writing. It should be readable by someone who wasn't...
Dev.to · Samson Tanimawo
1mo ago
Why We Stopped Using Log Aggregation for Everything
We used to push every log line to our centralized log system. It was a mess. Here's why we stopped...
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