Blog
-
28 Oct 2026
Do you need Istio?
Do you need Istio?
-
14 Sep 2026
Prometheus and Alertmanager for alerting on OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry doesn't do alerting. By design: it collects and ships logs, metrics and traces, and stops there . Alerts are left to an observability backend. For alerts in an OpenTelemetry stack, I…
-
10 Sep 2026
Kubernetes in industry: edge and datacenter
Over the last two years I have seen a sharp rise in requests to adopt and implement Kubernetes in industrial settings, both at startups and at established companies. Kubernetes gets picked to…
-
09 Sep 2026
I haven't opened a dashboard in six months
I don't think I have opened an observability dashboard in six months. Not because I don't need one: because Claude takes care of it, and does it better than I do. Over the last two years I have…
-
30 Apr 2026
I tried Claude Design
I tried Claude Design. For someone like me, totally hopeless at design and graphics, it's pretty impressive. In a couple of hours I sketched out a sensible visual direction for Eventitech. Then I…
-
05 Dec 2025
Migrating from Ingress NGINX to Envoy Gateway: Handling cert-manager integration
The recent retirement of Ingress NGINX led a lot of people (including myself) to consider alternatives. Since we need to migrate anyway, it makes sense to migrate to the newer Gateway API , the…
-
14 Nov 2025
OpenTelemetry Incremental Adoption Strategies
OpenTelemetry is rapidly becoming the de facto standard for telemetry collection. My highly scientific show-of-hands polls during a couple of public speaking engagements over the last year show…