Ricardo Castro
@mccricardo
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Senior Principal Engineer, tech speaker & writer, @DevOpsPorto and @DevOpsDaysPT, martial arts, and metal lover. Opinions are my own.
Oporto, Portugal
Joined March 2009
"Can LLMs replace on call SREs today?" by Lionel Palacin and Al Brown .
clickhouse.com
We often hear that LLMs will soon replace SREs. We wanted to test that claim, so we ran an experiment. Read the blog to see what we found.
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There's no right or wrong answer solutions in tech. There are appropriate tools and approaches for your context. As techies, oftentimes, we just want to go in and solve a problem. But without the proper context we might be solving the wrong problem.
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"OpenTelemetry configuration gotchas" by Nicolas Fränkel .
blog.frankel.ch
Last week, I described several approaches to OpenTelemetry on the JVM, their requirements, and their different results. This week, I want to highlight several gotchas found across stacks in the...
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"Demystifying Automatic Instrumentation: How the Magic Actually Works" by Severin Neumann .
causely.ai
Most developers use automatic instrumentation without knowing how it actually works. This post breaks down the key techniques behind it—not to build your own, but to understand what’s really happen...
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I usually talk from a place of failure: I messed up, learned from it and I hope others can learn from my mistakes. You need to walk the walk to talk the talk.
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I usually talk from a place of failure: I messed up, learned from it and I hope others can learn from my mistakes. You need to walk the talk to talk the talk.
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It's not about following an agile framework or ✅ on a bunch of stuff. It's about being agile, i.e. being able to learn and adapt as quickly as possible. It doesn't matter if you follow Scrum or Kanban or other framework. If you can't learn and adapt quickly, you're not agile.
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"Resilience with Zero Data Loss in High-Volume Telemetry Pipelines with OpenTelemetry and Bindplane" by Andy Keller .
bindplane.com
When processing massive volumes of telemetry data, ensuring every signal is delivered exactly once becomes critical. Imagine shipping a million logs only to discover half of them vanished—or worse,...
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Inspired by @37signals/@dhh Omakub and Omarchy, I'm switching back to Linux as my personal development platform.
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"Can Platform Engineering Accelerate AI Adoption?" by Jennifer Riggins .
thenewstack.io
Platform engineering can both enforce the guardrails and enable the innovation of AI adoption across the software development life cycle.
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Would you put your money in a bank you know wasn't secure?. I bet you wouldn't. Security isn't a non-functional requirement: it's a feature. Same thing with reliability. And, as features, they need to be understood and prioritised accordingly.
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"Counting the Cost of Inaction: A Financial Case for Investing in Observability" by Andrew Mallaband .
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robinzhon - A high-performance Python library for fast, concurrent S3 object downloads.
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"How to Name Your Spans" by Juraci Paixão Kröhling.
blog.olly.garden
One of the most fundamental yet often overlooked aspects of good instrumentation is naming. This post is the first in a series dedicated to the art and science of naming things in OpenTelemetry....
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"Datadog Log Receiver for OpenTelemetry Collector" by Amir Jakoby.
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"I Built My Company’s First Monitoring System — Here’s What I Learned" by Naomi Kriger.
medium.com
Four painful (and valuable) lessons from designing metrics, alerts, and dashboards with Prometheus
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"Automation Testing Benefits That Improve Engineering Efficiency" by Abbey Charles .
mabl.com
Discover how modern automation testing boosts engineering efficiency through faster feedback, broader coverage, AI-driven insights, and seamless CI/CD integration.
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Who's going to maintain and evolve all of the vibe code no one understands?
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"Top Scalability Strategies for Real-World Load" by ByteByteGo.
blog.bytebytego.com
In modern distributed systems, scalability is not a nice-to-have. Whether serving a global user base or responding to a viral spike, systems that fail to scale often fail outright.
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