2026-03-22
An AI SRE Chatbot for the Log Problem
How I connected an AI agent to Elasticsearch, Jira and Confluence to reduce incident triage effort and find signal in a noisy log stream.
Writing
Engineering, in practice.
The context, investigations, and trade-offs behind systems I've helped build and operate.
2025-09-21
Owning the Cloud Cost Problem
How taking ownership of an unmanaged cost problem reduced monthly cloud spend from AUD 700,000 to AUD 550,000.
2023-09-20
What Five-Nines Reliability Really Takes
How controlled load testing exposed bottlenecks across a .NET service, Elasticsearch, Redis, and Kubernetes.