SDLC & Quality Engineering

Observability, structured logging, and incident response for small teams that don't have an SRE department. How to find what broke, why it broke, and how to keep it from breaking again.

Integration tests tell you if two services work together right now. Contract tests tell you if they'll still work together after the next deployment. Here's how to test the promises services make to each other.

Bolting monitoring onto a finished system tells you what happened. Designing observability into the system tells you why. Here's how to build systems that explain themselves.

A bad bug report wastes everyone's time. A good one gets the bug fixed in an hour. The difference is structure, not writing talent. Here's the format that works.

Agile was supposed to free developers from rigid processes. Instead, many teams replaced one rigid process with another and called it 'agile.' Here's what the original ideas actually meant and which parts are worth keeping.