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AI-Assisted Operations: Practical Applications Beyond Hype

AI promises to revolutionise everything, including operations. After a year of experimentation, we’ve found where it genuinely helps and where it’s still hype. Spoiler: it’s not replacing engineers anytime soon. The Problem Alert fatigue persisted despite tuning. Hundreds of alerts …

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eBPF for Deep Observability Without Code Changes

Traditional observability requires instrumentation. Add libraries, modify code, redeploy. eBPF offers visibility into systems you can’t or won’t change, directly from the kernel. The Problem Instrumenting legacy applications was impractical. Some had no source code access. Others were …

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Implementing the Three Pillars of Observability

Everyone talks about observability, but most organisations have monitoring with extra steps. We spent a year building genuine observability and learned what actually matters. The Problem We had monitoring. Lots of it. Dashboards for everything. Alert fatigue was constant. When incidents occurred, we …

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