OpenTelemetry in 2026: Finally Ready for Production?
We’ve been watching this space for three years. Here’s our honest verdict after running OTel in production for six months.
Observability vs. Monitoring: Why the Distinction Matters More Than You Think
These terms are used interchangeably, but they represent fundamentally different approaches to understanding what’s happening in production systems.
Go in Production: What They Don’t Tell You in the Getting Started Guide
Go is genuinely excellent for production services. It’s also full of gotchas that only surface at scale. Here’s what four years of production Go taught us.
The Incident Post-Mortem Process That Actually Prevents Recurrence
Post-mortems are only as useful as the follow-through they generate. Here’s how to run them in a way that produces real change, not just documentation.
Python Performance: Why Your Code Is Slow and How to Fix It
Python is famously slow — but most Python performance problems aren’t language problems. They’re code pattern problems. Here’s how to diagnose and fix them.
Distributed Tracing: From Zero to Useful in a Week
Distributed tracing sounds complex to set up. The reality in 2026 is that you can get meaningful traces running in days. Here’s the practical guide.
Load Testing: Why Most Teams Do It Wrong and How to Fix It
Load testing that happens once before a launch, under ideal conditions, tells you almost nothing useful. Here’s how to build load testing that actually predicts production behavior.
Designing for Failure: The Chaos Engineering Principles Every Team Should Apply
Chaos engineering sounds like deliberately breaking things. It’s actually about discovering how your system fails before your users do.
Event-Driven Architecture: When It’s the Right Choice and When It’s Not
Event-driven architecture solves specific problems exceptionally well and creates new problems in exchange. Here’s how to make the tradeoff deliberately.
How We Reduced Our p99 Latency by 80% Without Rewriting Anything
Tail latency was making our SLA commitments impossible to keep. The root cause wasn’t what we expected, and the fix was simpler than we feared.