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Building an Observability Platform From Scratch
Kartik Patel14 Sept 2026
GUIDEBuilding an Observability Platform From Scratch

How an in-house Zabbix + Grafana stack cut MTTR by ~40% at Parkar — the architecture, the automation, and the mistakes I'd skip next time.

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Agentic AI for Incident Response: Where It Actually Helps
Kartik Patel14 Sept 2026
AIAgentic AI for Incident Response: Where It Actually Helps

I'm building an AI governance platform and using agentic AI for RCA at work. Here's what it's actually good for in incident response — and where a human still has to hold the pager.

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SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets: A Practical Guide
Kartik Patel14 Sept 2026
DEEP DIVESLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets: A Practical Guide

Defining SLOs that actually protect reliability instead of becoming vanity metrics — the exact framework I use in production, with worked error-budget math.

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Kubernetes Is the New Baseline
Kartik Patel10 Sept 2026
CAREERKubernetes Is the New Baseline

I pulled real job postings from Indeed, Naukri, and LinkedIn to see what recruiters actually want from SRE and Cloud Ops roles right now. The signal was louder than I expected.

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Kartik Patel01 Jan 2025
TRENDINGZero-Downtime Deployments

How to ship code to production without your users noticing. Lessons learned from operating infrastructure at scale.

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Kartik Patel14 Sep 2024
POPULAROn-Call Without Burnout

Practical strategies for sustainable on-call rotations that protect your team's health and your system's reliability.

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Kartik Patel24 Aug 2024
NEWAutomating Runbooks with Python

Turn repetitive incident response into automated workflows. Stop doing the same thing twice at 3 AM.

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