Articles & Systems Insights
Thoughts, architectures, and lessons learned from production cloud infrastructure, observability automation, and site reliability engineering.
The OpenTelemetry Trap: Why I Still Choose Proprietary Enterprise Agents in Production
OpenTelemetry promised universal vendor neutrality, but in practice shifted massive operational complexity onto SRE teams. Here is why purpose-built proprietary agents still outperform OTel for mission-critical enterprise systems.
Architecting Multi-Cloud Telemetry: Bridging AWS and Google Cloud
Strategies for unifying metrics, distributed tracing, and security logs across hybrid AWS and GCP enterprise environments.
Mastering NRQL: High-Precision Alerting and Eliminating False Alarms
How to write advanced NRQL queries that catch real incidents, utilize baseline anomaly detection, and eliminate alert fatigue.
Observability as Code: Scaling New Relic & Terraform in Enterprise Production
A battle-tested blueprint for managing hundreds of alert conditions, composite policies, and dashboards using Terraform and CI/CD without configuration drift.