Ricardo Castro
Senior Principal Engineer, tech speaker & writer, @DevOpsPorto and @DevOpsDaysPT, @CDeliveryFdn Ambassador, martial arts amateur, and metal lover. Opinions are my own.
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- As a Staff+ engineer you need to be able to sleep at night knowing that not everything is in a "perfect state".
- "From Signals to Reliability: SLOs, Runbooks and Post-Mortems" by Fatih Koç fatihkoc.net/posts/sre-ob...
- "When high availability brings downtime" by Thibault JAMET medium.com/learnings-fr...
- System architecture is not about perfect vs not perfect. It's about suitable vs not suitable.
- Our industry moves too fast. Keep updating your heuristics.
- "Inside Open Infrastructure: January 2026" by Allison Price openinfra.org/blog/openinf...
- "Code Review" by Ron Jeffries ronjeffries.com/articles/-v0...
- On the topic of "political capital", earn before you spend. And spend it wisely.
- System design is all about trade-offs. There's no such thing as a universal optimal solution.
- "Why Kubernetes is retiring Ingress NGINX" by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols thenewstack.io/kubernetes-t...
