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Production Engineering: Observability, Security, Deployment, Kubernetes, and Cost

What separates a design on paper from a system you can run: metrics, logs and traces, SLOs, zero-trust security, safe deployment strategies, Kubernetes essentials, multi-region cloud choices, and cost control.

Created 2026-09-29 · Updated 2026-10-15 · System Design

API Monitoring: Proving the Library Can Still Reserve a Book

A health check that passes while nobody can reserve a book: how to monitor API outcomes with synthetic journeys and real-request telemetry, keep test traffic safe, turn failures into actionable alerts, and defend the cost, privacy and recovery decisions in an interview.

Created 2026-10-17 · Updated 2026-10-17 · System Design

AI Evals and Observability: How to Check Whether an AI Actually Works

Why a fluent AI answer isn't proof of success — evals, traces, groundedness, graders, and the release checks that catch failures a good average score would hide.

Created 2026-09-16 · Updated 2026-10-15 · AI Solutions Architecture & AI Engineering