← Back to Shiben OS

§2 · Engineering Notes

Notes and drafts.

00Signal
01Question
02Trace
03Fix
04Learning
■ NOTE

Observability pipeline

Kubernetes → Prometheus → Cortex → Grafana / Logs → Loki / Traces → OpenTelemetry → Tempo

A stack is only useful when it helps you ask sharper questions during stress. Metrics explain shape, logs explain texture, traces explain path.

KubernetesPrometheusLokiTempoSLOs

TAKEAWAYI prefer systems where each tool has a clear boundary and the architecture can be reasoned about under stress.

■ NOTE

AI agents for infrastructure

Runbooks as tools, incident tickets as memory, deterministic exploration maps, and MCP servers as controlled action layers.

AI agentsMCPRunbooksIncident response

TAKEAWAYGood agents do not replace judgment. They compress the distance between question, evidence, and reversible action.

■ NOTE

Web development as one connected system

Frontend, backend, database, auth, deployment, observability, and product thinking are not separate rooms. They are pressure points in the same machine.

FrontendBackendAuthDeploymentProduct