DevOps lead at a São Paulo fintech, managing Kubernetes clusters across three AWS regions. Built the GitOps pipeline that reduced deployment incidents by 80%.
How moving from manual deployments to a rigid GitOps model across three AWS regions reduced our fintech's production deployment incidents by 80%.
5 August 2026
Stop blaming your build tools; your CI pipeline is slow because you're treating the delivery process as an afterthought instead of a product.
2 August 2026
This article explores the challenges of implementing feature flags in large-scale applications, including complexities in release processes, operational overhead, and potential pitfalls leading to deployment incidents. It also outlines strategies for effective feature flag management, particularly in a GitOps environment.
23 July 2026
Most deployment rollbacks fail because they were never designed for. The code that shipped assumed forward-only migrations, schema changes that break the previous version, and state changes that cannot be undone. Designing rollback in from the start changes the incident calculus completely.
22 July 2026
A production-focused guide to building reliable agentic loops that handle tool failures, self-correct through reflection steps, and terminate safely — covering the loop structures, retry strategies, and observability patterns that prevent runaway agents
21 July 2026
Infrastructure as code drift occurs when the actual infrastructure state diverges from the code that is supposed to define it. Every manual change in the console, every emergency hotfix applied directly, and every environment-specific exception widens the gap.
21 July 2026
Zero-downtime deployment techniques are well-documented for stateless services. The cases that cause downtime during otherwise smooth deployments — database migrations, schema changes, static asset CDN timing, and session continuity — require specific handling that is rarely covered in the standard guides.
21 July 2026
Secret rotation is required for security hygiene, but poorly architected secrets management makes rotation a high-risk event that the team dreads. The architecture that survives rotation is different from the architecture that works until rotation is needed.
21 July 2026
Alerts tell you something is wrong. Observability tells you what and why. Teams that add alerts before building observability investigate the same incidents repeatedly without understanding their causes.
21 July 2026