Closer to the metal
What this blog is about and what it isn’t.
I’m a software engineer who builds things in Go. Mostly distributed systems and observability — schedulers, gossip protocols, the stack underneath the YAML. The tools I reach for are Kubernetes, Istio, Prometheus, and both the LGTM && ELK stacks.
This is a place for things I find interesting, notes on projects I’m working on, and the reasoning behind decisions I want to write down before I forget why I made them.
This blog is not a place for “getting started” tutorials. If that’s what you’re looking for, any AI assistant has you covered. What I want to write is the stuff that’s harder to find — what the systems actually do when you push the buttons, what breaks in production, and what observability looks like beyond CPU and memory dashboards.
Part of this is selfish. I’ve found my niche and I want to go deep in it. Writing is the only way I know to actually understand something instead of just sensing it.
With the first obligatory post out of the way, I’m looking forward to writing more here.
