MMatthew2h ago · 4 min readTrace an AI API Request Across Every AttemptDisclosure: I work on Modelflare, an OpenAI-compatible AI API gateway. The canonical version of this article lives on modelflare.dev. Decision first Trace an AI API Request Across Every Attempt is an matthewmodelflare.hashnode.dev
SsoftverseAdmin2h ago · 12 min readKubernetes Resource Requests and Limits (2026): Set Them Right and Prevent OOMKilled & FailedSchedulingTL;DR Requests are what the scheduler spends; limits are what the kernel enforces. A pod is placed based on its requests, and killed or throttled based on its limits. CPU and memory fail differently:devopsenginer.hashnode.dev
SsoftverseAdmin3h ago · 19 min readKubernetes Troubleshooting in 2026: CrashLoopBackOff, ImagePullBackOff, Pending Pods and 20+ Errors — Diagnosis Steps That Actually WorkTL;DR Almost every pod failure is diagnosed with the same four moves, in order: kubectl describe → events → kubectl logs (including --previous) → kubectl debug / exec. CrashLoopBackOff is a symptom, devopsenginer.hashnode.dev
MMatthew1d ago · 6 min readApply Backpressure to AI API WorkloadsDisclosure: I work on Modelflare, an OpenAI-compatible AI API gateway. The canonical version of this article lives on modelflare.dev. Apply Backpressure to AI API Workloads: a production guide with an2Amatthewmodelflare.hashnode.dev
AAmit Shukla1d ago · 7 min readHow one bug can take down half the internet, and how to limit the blast radiusOn July 19, 2024, a single faulty content update from CrowdStrike crashed Windows machines around the world. Microsoft later estimated about 8.5 million devices were affected. Flights were grounded, hamitshuklabag.hashnode.dev
RRavi Sanchala2d ago · 5 min readHow I cut incident response time by 40% without buying new toolsIt's 2am. Your phone buzzes. It's not an alert, it's a customer: "Is the app down?" You open your laptop, SSH into a server and start scrolling through logs, hoping something jumps out. Forty minutes ravisanchala.hashnode.dev
Jjaberadam20013d ago · 11 min readPostmortem Root Cause Analysis: Why One Root Cause Means the Incident Comes BackHere's a quick exercise. On the morning of August 1, 2012, all five of these were true at a US trading firm called Knight Capital. By the end of roughly 45 minutes, the firm had lost more than $460 misimplyexplained.hashnode.dev
PParsa Mohammadi4d ago · 2 min readChange Risk Management in Software EngineeringChange risk management is the process of understanding and controlling the potential production impact of software changes. It is not one tool or one review step.A useful lifecycle is:Change → Review tomosu.hashnode.dev
TThankGod Chibugwum Obobo4d ago · 10 min readRemote DevOps Jobs in Nigeria: How to Build a Global Engineering Career from LagosLagos is one of the most demanding places in the world to be an infrastructure engineer. It is also one of the most underrated places to build a global DevOps career from. You are expected to keep sysactocodes.hashnode.dev
BBiswadip Majumdar5d ago · 8 min readFrom SRE to AI Infrastructure Engineer: A Practical Learning RoadmapWhy experienced SREs don't need to become ML researchers to work on AI, and what to learn instead. I have spent more than 17 years in site reliability and platform engineering, and when I look at how warrator.hashnode.dev
