Writing

Thoughts on software engineering, distributed systems, and lessons learned in production.

August 7, 2026 Monitoring Prometheus Grafana

Building SMSC Monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and Custom Metrics

How I set up infrastructure and service-level monitoring for SMSC nodes, integrated custom metrics via a metrics exporter, and designed reusable Grafana dashboards.

July 28, 2026 Backend HTTP Testing

Breaking HTTP Callbacks on Purpose to Test Recovery

What I learned by deliberately breaking HTTP callbacks with 4xx, 5xx, connection failures, and delayed responses, then tracing health checks, pending work, and automatic recovery.

July 25, 2026 DevOps CI/CD GitHub Actions

Building a CI/CD Pipeline for Static Sites

A practical walkthrough of setting up continuous deployment for a Vite-based portfolio using GitHub Actions, SSH, and rsync — from local dev to production in minutes.