Ethereum validator staking requirements have changed substantially in the past twelve months. The Pectra hard fork in May 2025 raised the maximum effective balance from 32 ETH to 2,048 ETH. The Fusaka upgrade in December 2025 activated PeerDAS and raised…
SRE practices for startups matter most at the point when a company is too small to justify dedicated reliability engineers but too large to run on intuition and heroics. Toil rose 30% in 2026, the first increase in five years,…
An incident runbook template is the difference between an engineer at 3am who knows exactly what to do and one who spends the first fifteen minutes figuring out where to start. Toil rose 30% in 2026, the first increase in…
On-call rotation best practices matter more in 2026 than they did a year ago. The State of Incident Management 2026 reported that toil rose 30%, the first increase in five years, despite widespread adoption of AI operations tooling. 88% of…
The slo sla difference is one of those things everyone in an engineering organization uses as if they understand it, right up until the moment a customer escalates a reliability complaint and nobody agrees on whether it was an SLO…
Infrastructure as code best practices are well documented at the beginner level. The documentation tells you to use version control, use modules, and avoid hardcoded secrets. What it does not tell you is that 67% of teams using IaC experience…
