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# DORA Metrics Without the Dashboard Theatre
The four DORA metrics are a thermometer, not a treatment. Most teams chart them, watch the lines go up, and change nothing about how software actually ships. How to read each metric honestly, the four ways teams game them, and the one question that tells a real DORA practice apart from a vanity dashboard.
# Your Developer Portal Is a Trap (Until It Isn't)
Backstage is the most popular way to make platform engineering look real before it is. A portal is the index of your paved roads - and writing the index before the book is the classic first-six-months mistake. When a developer portal earns its keep, what to put in it, and the cheaper version you almost certainly want first.
# Learn Terraform Fluently
Knowing terraform apply is not knowing Terraform. A pragmatic guide to the mental model that makes infrastructure-as-code fluent: state, the plan loop, modules, drift, and how to organise it all - plus when to put the tool down.
# Building Your First Golden Path
A platform is a slide deck until the first golden path ships. How to pick, build, and get adoption for the one paved road that makes platform engineering real.
# Your LLM Platform Is Repeating Your ML Platform's Mistakes
An SRE and platform-engineering take on why most LLM platforms are quietly rebuilding the anti-patterns that made ML platforms painful in 2018-2022, and the small set of decisions that break the loop.
# The Postmortem That Changed Nothing
Most postmortems produce a document, not a change. A pragmatic SRE take on why incident reviews fail to fix anything, and the small set of habits that turn them into real learning.
# Your Staging Environment Is Lying To You
Most staging environments are expensive theatre. A pragmatic SRE take on what staging is actually for, why it always drifts from production, and the production-safety habits that pay off more than fidelity ever will.
# The Boring Stack Manifesto
The SRE who runs Kubernetes for a living ships side projects on Flask, SQLite, and HTMX. A manifesto for the boring stack, with inpedana.com as the live case study.
# Are You Really Monitoring Your Infrastructure?
Most teams confuse 'we have dashboards' with 'we have observability'. A practical guide to monitoring that actually catches problems before your customers do.
# Is Kubernetes the Right Tool for You?
Kubernetes is brilliant when you need it and a tax when you don't. A pragmatic decision framework - with honest alternatives - from someone who runs Kubernetes for a living.