Goku: The Ultimate New HTTP Load Testing Tool
Discover Goku, a blazing-fast HTTP load testing tool written in Rust, scalable, and with built-in MCP (Model Context Protocol) support. Complete guide and practical examples.
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Insights on Observability
Practical thinking on distributed systems, observability, and production engineering. No hype, just things I've learned the hard way.
Why Your OpenTelemetry Setup Is Probably Generating Useless Spans
Most teams instrument everything and understand nothing. A practical guide to designing spans that actually help you debug production issues.
Distributed Tracing Across Async Boundaries: The Problems Nobody Warns You About
Trace propagation through message queues and async workers looks straightforward until it isn't. Here's what actually breaks and how to fix it.
SLOs Are Not SLAs: How to Define Reliability Targets Your Team Will Actually Use
The difference between a reliability target that drives engineering decisions and one that collects dust in a wiki page.
Debugging JVM Memory Pressure in Containerized Environments
Container memory limits and JVM ergonomics don't always agree. A deep dive into diagnosing and fixing OOM kills, GC storms, and off-heap leaks.