Tagged 'observability'

Architectural cross-section of a workshop with four half-finished stations — observability mast, automaton chassis, self-repair mechanism, study desk — one figure with a checklist

December 2025

Year-end notes: self-hosted platform resolutions and the backlog I am finally tackling

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A late December reset: observability across the stack, agentic workflows, self-healing, and the certifications I am chasing in the new year.

Observing What You've Built: Secrets, Alerting, and Blast Radius

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Scoped CI/CD secrets, Prometheus and Grafana on k3s, and four alert rules routed by audience and urgency: how a self-hosted platform limits blast radius without an SRE team to page.

Cost as a Design Constraint: FinOps on a £0 Budget

platform-engineering self-hosting infrastructure observability

How a £0 infrastructure budget forced architectural decisions that map directly to cloud cost governance, and what FinOps looks like when you can't just throw money at the problem.