[{"content":"Why this blog There\u0026rsquo;s no shortage of \u0026ldquo;getting started with Prometheus\u0026rdquo; tutorials. What\u0026rsquo;s harder to find is the messy middle: why a dashboard is lying to you, why the cost of that component hasn\u0026rsquo;t gone down after all those optimisations, or why a Kubernetes pod that looks \u0026ldquo;Running\u0026rdquo; is actually dead inside. That\u0026rsquo;s the stuff I want to write about here.\nWhat to expect from this blog Short, practical posts grounded in real problems I\u0026rsquo;ve had to deal with Topics and technologies I find useful, and how they ripple into the rest of the software lifecycle No vendor pitches — just what worked, what didn\u0026rsquo;t, and why More soon.\n","permalink":"https://farzadz.me/posts/hello-world/","summary":"Kicking off a blog about Observability, SRE, and Cloud Computing","title":"Hello World: Why Another Observability Blog"},{"content":"Hi, I\u0026rsquo;m Farzad. I write about observability, SRE, software engineering and mostly things I\u0026rsquo;ve had to debug the hard way at 2am.\nTopics you\u0026rsquo;ll find here:\nObservability: metrics, logs, traces, and how to make them more useful SRE: reliability practices, incident response, on-call sanity Everything else: general notes on topics I find useful ","permalink":"https://farzadz.me/about/","summary":"about","title":"About"}]