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Samson Tanimawo

Building the first Agentic SRE Platform. 100 AI agents that detect, investigate, and resolve incidents autonomously.

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Scaling On-Call When You Only Have 5 Engineers
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Scaling On-Call When You Only Have 5 Engineers

#sre #devops #oncall #startup
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TLS Certificate Management Without Tears
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TLS Certificate Management Without Tears

#sre #devops #tls #security
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DNS: The SRE's Most Underrated Skill
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DNS: The SRE's Most Underrated Skill

#sre #devops #dns #networking
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The Silent Outage: Monitoring What You Can't See
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The Silent Outage: Monitoring What You Can't See

#sre #devops #monitoring #reliability
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Why Every SRE Should Learn a Little Rust
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Why Every SRE Should Learn a Little Rust

#sre #devops #rust #programming
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How We Built Our Own Incident Management System
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How We Built Our Own Incident Management System

#sre #devops #incident #tools
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The Role of Platform Engineering in a Startup
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The Role of Platform Engineering in a Startup

#sre #devops #platform #startup
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Building Dashboards People Actually Use
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Building Dashboards People Actually Use

#sre #devops #dashboards #observability
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SRE Maturity Models: Where Is Your Team?
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SRE Maturity Models: Where Is Your Team?

#sre #devops #maturity #strategy
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The Art of Writing a Good Post-Mortem
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The Art of Writing a Good Post-Mortem

#sre #devops #postmortem #writing
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Why We Stopped Using Log Aggregation for Everything
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Why We Stopped Using Log Aggregation for Everything

#sre #devops #logging #observability
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Running Postgres at Scale: Lessons Learned
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Running Postgres at Scale: Lessons Learned

#sre #devops #postgres #database
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How We Reduced Our Deployment Failure Rate to Under 2%
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How We Reduced Our Deployment Failure Rate to Under 2%

#sre #devops #deployment #ci
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The Hidden Cost of Flaky Tests
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The Hidden Cost of Flaky Tests

#sre #devops #testing #ci
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Observability for Serverless: What's Different
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Observability for Serverless: What's Different

#sre #devops #serverless #observability
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From DevOps to SRE: Making the Transition
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From DevOps to SRE: Making the Transition

#sre #devops #career
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The SRE Interview: Questions I Actually Ask
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The SRE Interview: Questions I Actually Ask

#sre #devops #hiring #career
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Incident Retrospectives Without Blame
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Incident Retrospectives Without Blame

#sre #devops #postmortem #culture
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Alert Fatigue: The Silent Productivity Killer
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Alert Fatigue: The Silent Productivity Killer

#sre #devops #oncall #alerts
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Why SLIs Matter More Than SLOs
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Why SLIs Matter More Than SLOs

#sre #devops #slo #reliability
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The PagerDuty Migration Playbook
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The PagerDuty Migration Playbook

#sre #devops #pagerduty #oncall
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How We Cut Datadog Bills by 60% Without Losing Observability
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How We Cut Datadog Bills by 60% Without Losing Observability

#sre #devops #datadog #cost
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Building Your First Runbook: A Template That Actually Works
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Building Your First Runbook: A Template That Actually Works

#sre #devops #runbook #ops
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AIOps vs Traditional Monitoring: What Actually Changed
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AIOps vs Traditional Monitoring: What Actually Changed

#sre #devops #ai #monitoring
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Eventual Consistency: Debugging the Hardest Class of Bugs
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Eventual Consistency: Debugging the Hardest Class of Bugs

#distributed #consistency #debugging #microservices
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The Economics of Self-Hosting vs. Managed Monitoring
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The Economics of Self-Hosting vs. Managed Monitoring

#monitoring #costs #devops #selfhosted
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Building an Incident Response Playbook Library
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Building an Incident Response Playbook Library

#incidents #sre #runbooks #oncall
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Kubernetes Network Policies: Lessons from Production Incidents
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Kubernetes Network Policies: Lessons from Production Incidents

#kubernetes #security #networking #sre
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Reducing Toil: The Google SRE Book Applied to Startups
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Reducing Toil: The Google SRE Book Applied to Startups

#sre #toil #productivity #automation
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Incident Severity Levels: SEV-1 to SEV-5 Calibration
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Incident Severity Levels: SEV-1 to SEV-5 Calibration

#incidents #sre #oncall #process
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Memory Leak Detection in Long-Running Services
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Memory Leak Detection in Long-Running Services

#debugging #memory #sre #performance
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CI/CD Reliability: When Your Deploy Pipeline is Your SPOF
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CI/CD Reliability: When Your Deploy Pipeline is Your SPOF

#cicd #reliability #devops #deployments
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Multi-Region Failover: Lessons from Running It Hot
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Multi-Region Failover: Lessons from Running It Hot

#multiregion #failover #sre #aws
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Multi-Region Failover: Lessons from Running It Hot
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Multi-Region Failover: Lessons from Running It Hot

#multiregion #failover #sre #aws
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Disaster Recovery Drills That Actually Work
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Disaster Recovery Drills That Actually Work

#dr #reliability #sre #chaosengineering
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Disaster Recovery Drills That Actually Work
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Disaster Recovery Drills That Actually Work

#dr #reliability #sre #chaosengineering
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Feature Flags as a Reliability Tool, Not Just an A/B Platform
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Feature Flags as a Reliability Tool, Not Just an A/B Platform

#featureflags #reliability #devops #deployments
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eBPF for SREs: Observability Without Agents
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eBPF for SREs: Observability Without Agents

#ebpf #observability #linux #kernel
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Observability as Code: Managing Dashboards and Alerts with Terraform
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Observability as Code: Managing Dashboards and Alerts with Terraform

#terraform #observability #devops #iac
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Service Level Objectives for Complex Microservices
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Service Level Objectives for Complex Microservices

#sre #slo #microservices #reliability
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Building a Culture of Reliability: Beyond the SRE Handbook
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Building a Culture of Reliability: Beyond the SRE Handbook

#sre #culture #reliability #engineering
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Debugging Kubernetes OOMKilled: A Step-by-Step Guide
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Debugging Kubernetes OOMKilled: A Step-by-Step Guide

#kubernetes #debugging #sre #devops
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Deployment Frequency: How We Went From Weekly to 20x/Day
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Deployment Frequency: How We Went From Weekly to 20x/Day

#cicd #devops #deployments #sre
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Cost-Effective Observability: The 80/20 Stack for Startups
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Cost-Effective Observability: The 80/20 Stack for Startups

#observability #startup #monitoring #devops
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Incident Communication: The Status Page That Builds Trust
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Incident Communication: The Status Page That Builds Trust

#incidents #communication #sre #devops
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Load Testing in Production: How We Do It Safely
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Load Testing in Production: How We Do It Safely

#loadtesting #sre #performance #devops
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Effective On-Call Rotations: Lessons From Building Fair Schedules
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Effective On-Call Rotations: Lessons From Building Fair Schedules

#oncall #sre #devops #culture
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GitOps for Infrastructure: How We Deploy With Zero SSH
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GitOps for Infrastructure: How We Deploy With Zero SSH

#gitops #devops #kubernetes #cicd
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Prometheus at Scale: Surviving the Cardinality Cliff
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Prometheus at Scale: Surviving the Cardinality Cliff

#prometheus #monitoring #observability #sre
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Database Reliability: The SRE Approach to Keeping Data Safe
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Database Reliability: The SRE Approach to Keeping Data Safe

#database #sre #reliability #devops
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Container Security for SREs: The Practical Checklist
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Container Security for SREs: The Practical Checklist

#security #containers #kubernetes #devops
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The Incident Commander Role: Running Incidents Without Chaos
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The Incident Commander Role: Running Incidents Without Chaos

#sre #incidents #leadership #devops
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Terraform at Scale: Lessons from Managing 500+ Resources
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Terraform at Scale: Lessons from Managing 500+ Resources

#terraform #devops #infrastructure #iac
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Why Your Microservices Need Circuit Breakers (And How to Add Them)
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Why Your Microservices Need Circuit Breakers (And How to Add Them)

#microservices #reliability #sre #devops
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The On-Call Handoff That Prevents Dropped Incidents
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The On-Call Handoff That Prevents Dropped Incidents

#sre #oncall #process #devops
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SLOs That Product Managers Actually Understand
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SLOs That Product Managers Actually Understand

#sre #slo #product #reliability
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MTTR Optimization: The 7 Levers That Actually Move the Needle
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MTTR Optimization: The 7 Levers That Actually Move the Needle

#sre #mttr #incidents #devops
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Service Maps: The Architectural Clarity Your Team Is Missing
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Service Maps: The Architectural Clarity Your Team Is Missing

#architecture #microservices #observability #sre
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AI in Incident Response: Hype vs. Reality in 2024
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AI in Incident Response: Hype vs. Reality in 2024

#ai #incidents #sre #devops
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Monitoring Costs Are Out of Control — Here's How to Fix It
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Monitoring Costs Are Out of Control — Here's How to Fix It

#monitoring #devops #costs #observability
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