A Case Study: When Staging Takes Down Prod

A small incident on Reddit caught my attention.

Dec 9 • Yaugen Drybin

Vibe Coding — Part 2: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Vibe coding gives teams instant momentum: fast prototypes, quick learning loops, minimal friction.

Dec 2 • Yaugen Drybin

November 2025

Vibe Coding — Part 1: Behind the Vibe

AI coding has become so low-friction that a friend of mine literally sends prompts to Claude between Mario Kart races. And the crazy part? It works…

Nov 25 • Yaugen Drybin

The Hidden Cost of Fine-Grained Deployments

Fine-grained rollouts look safe on paper — 1%, 5%, 10%… watch metrics, repeat.

Nov 18 • Yaugen Drybin

Does AI really make developers faster?

A field study (METR, 2025) found that experienced engineers actually got 19 % slower when allowed to use tools like Cursor + Claude 3.7.

Nov 11 • Yaugen Drybin

Elasticsearch FinOps

Cutting Costs Without Cutting Performance

Nov 4 • Yaugen Drybin

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October 2025

Elasticsearch Mistakes That Kill Performance

And How to Avoid Them

Oct 27 • Yaugen Drybin

How SRE Culture Drives Scale

Incidents happen. Growth depends on what you do next.

Oct 21 • Yaugen Drybin

Reliability Has a Price Tag

Every “nine” in your SLA isn’t free — it’s a bill waiting for approval.

Oct 14 • Yaugen Drybin

Using Error Budgets as a Business Tool

Business leaders keep asking for 100% uptime.

Oct 7 • Yaugen Drybin

September 2025

LLM Prompt Injection — Part 2: How to Break and Defend LLMs

In Part 1 we covered the business impact of prompt injection.

Sep 30 • Yaugen Drybin

LLM Prompt Injection — Part 1: Why Leaders Should Care

What the heck is Prompt Injection?

Sep 23 • Yaugen Drybin