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Why Your SRE Team's Toil Budget Is Lying to You

March 17, 2026 o11y sre on-call toil reliability capacity-planning devops

Most engineering organizations track toil as a single number. That single number is hiding the most important signal in your reliability practice.

Observability Isn't Tools, It's How You Think

January 15, 2026 o11y observability incident-response epistemology sre devops mental-frameworks

Observability is a practice of reasoning from evidence under uncertainty. Learn the five essential steps that define how we know what we understand about production systems during incidents.

Observability as Automation: A Philosophy for Understanding Systems

December 15, 2025 o11y observability sre devops philosophy scientific-method

Your observability bill is too high. In this first episode, I share what 25 years in the field taught me: observability isn’t a tax we pay—it’s automation for understanding our systems.