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Adeel Khan / Engineering notes

Building systems.
Understanding what holds up.

Notes on building, scaling, and operating systems in production — and the decisions behind them.

I'm a platform engineer and engineering leader based in Melbourne. My work brings together reliability, deployment, cost, and security. Here I write about the problems, trade-offs, and lessons that come with that responsibility.

An original illustration of a calm engineer beside a cloud systems dashboard with warning lights.
It's fine. Until it isn't. An original illustration for itsf9.dev.

The phrase nods to KC Green's “This Is Fine”, the perfect shorthand for staying calm while systems demand attention.

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Recent notes cover measurable reliability, cloud cost ownership, and an AI SRE chatbot connected to operational evidence.

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