Most LLM calls in a backend are structured decisions dressed up as chat. TypeSafe's Jev answers only that kind of question: typed answers with probabilities, in one pass, with no text generation. What it is, how its confidence numbers work, what 'can't hallucinate' does and does not mean, the open-source alternatives that appeared within weeks, and where an SRE would put one.
Which of my Kubernetes-shaped SRE instincts are about the abstraction and which are about the machine underneath, worked out against a hosting company that runs about 12,000 single-tenant VMs across ten cloud providers with no Kubernetes at all.
VictoriaMetrics started as a remote storage backend for Prometheus and grew into a full monitoring stack. What Prometheus deliberately does not do, why two HA Prometheus replicas are not a cluster, how VictoriaMetrics splits Prometheus's jobs into components and keeps long-term data without object storage, how VictoriaLogs compares with Loki and VictoriaTraces with Tempo and Jaeger, what else the project ships, and when it is the right choice.
I read the whole of Regulation (EU) 2024/2847, every article and every annex, and mapped KubeAid and LinuxAid against it for my employer. These are the things that surprised me, the mental model I ended up with, and what I would tell the next engineer who has to do the same reading.
Processes and signals, namespaces and cgroups, memory, storage, networking, and identity: the mechanism behind each, the two or three ways it breaks under a pod, and the one check that confirms it. Written from on-call across 100+ production Kubernetes clusters.
Lessons from writing CiliumNetworkPolicies for the KubeAid-addons chart - toServices port traps, labels Cilium ignores, toFQDNs without a DNS rule, default-deny surprises, and why every namespace needs exactly one default-deny.
Deployment mode, object storage, label cardinality, multi-tenancy and auth, cross-cluster shipping, and the failures that are silent rather than loud. Written after moving a Loki install twice and debugging an object store that corrupted everything it was given.
A breakdown of why DaemonSets using hostPort can get stuck in Pending during rolling updates, and why the default maxSurge/maxUnavailable settings aren't always right for them.
A breakdown of the Model Context Protocol - the problem it solves, its architecture, and how a tool call actually works under the hood.
What a PodDisruptionBudget actually does, the difference between voluntary and involuntary disruptions, how the eviction API respects it, and the mistakes that quietly break node drains and cluster upgrades.