ENGINEERING PUBLICATIONS

Reliability Research & Whitepapers

Peer-level research on distributed systems reliability, in-kernel Linux observability, and automated GitOps rollback controllers.

CAUSALITY ARCHITECTURE August 26, 2026 • 9 min read

Why LLM Prompting Fails at Production SRE: The Necessity of Deterministic eBPF Causality Graphs

Feeding raw log dumps into generative LLMs produces high hallucination rates during cascading P0 outages. We examine why deterministic compiler AST diff parsing combined with in-kernel Linux socket telemetry is the only mathematically sound approach to production remediation.

Statistical Audit Read Whitepaper

INCIDENT BENCHMARKS August 12, 2026 • 8 min read

From 48-Minute PagerDuty Chaos to 18-Second MTTR: Auditing 2,400 Production Microservice Cascades

An empirical analysis of 2,400 high-severity incidents across 64 enterprise Kubernetes environments reveals where human triage time is squandered—and how automated canary rollbacks eliminate 96.6% of customer-facing downtime.

Empirical Study Read Whitepaper

BLAST RADIUS CONTROL July 29, 2026 • 10 min read

Preventing Blast Radius Expansion: Dynamic Envoy Circuit-Breakers and Firecracker MicroVM Sandboxing

How to safely automate cluster interventions without causing secondary service deadlocks. A deep dive into pre-flight Firecracker container validation and sub-second rate-limit adaptation in Envoy proxy meshes.

Systems Engineering Read Whitepaper