Homelabbing: Building a Mini PC Observability Platform, One Weekend at a Time
How an app-of-apps pattern, a dual-ingress topology, and multi-window burn-rate alerts turn a single mini PC into a production-grade platform laboratory.
Welcome
Welcome to my blog on Site Reliability Engineering, Linux systems, and infrastructure. Here I share insights on building reliable systems, troubleshooting, and automation.
Recent Posts
Why “Human Error” Isn’t a Cause: It’s Where the Investigation Stopped
Early in my career as a young sysadmin, I accidentally deleted a customer database.
S3 Files and the Coordination Tax in Regulated Data Pipelines
By Manu Balakrishnan Sreekumari
The Role Drift Problem Nobody Talks About
A new AWS account is provisioned. A runner role is created from a template. Everything is clean.
Building a Self-Service AWS Cleanup Solution for Sandbox Accounts using AWS-Nuke
I designed and built this end-to-end solution to help platform engineering teams manage AWS sandbox sprawl across multiple development teams. Here’s the stor...
Welcome to My SRE & Linux Blog
Welcome! I’m starting this blog to share practical knowledge from my experience working with Linux systems, SRE practices, and cloud infrastructure.