Debug Packet drops between GCP and colocation servers

Debugging a GCP Partner Interconnect That Lied to Us

Control Metric Cardinality Before It Kills Your Time-Series Database

How we found and fixed a runaway active series count in metrictank

Keeping Elasticsearch Byte-Balanced at Scale

Why shard-count balance isn't enough and how one persistent setting fixed our disk drift

Syncing Kubernetes Secrets to Google Secret Manager

How we bulk-migrated cluster secrets to GSM and kept them in sync with a daily CronJob

Pinning Metabase in Kubernetes: Stop Using Latest

How an OSS image upgrade crashlooped our analytics and why version pinning isn't optional for stateful workloads

Running a Monitoring Daemon Inside Your Kubernetes Cluster

How we watch Jenkins build health from inside GKE using a lightweight Python daemon and Graphite metrics

Kubernetes Probes - Startup Probes

What startup probes are, when they beat liveness probes, and how to size them for apps that run migrations

Internal Services on GKE Without a VPN: IAP + Nginx Gateway

How we expose internal tools to the team using Google IAP and an nginx reverse proxy instead of maintaining VPN access

Kubernetes Networking & DNS

What Actually Happens When Your Pod Calls a Service

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Introduction