# reliability engineering (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover reliability engineering. Page: Feed: --- ## [Lesson 6: Building the QueryUnderstandingAgent](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/lesson-6-building-the-queryunderstandingagent) _2026-08-20 · AI Engineering · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ Today we build: ## [Lesson 5: Reranking — Improving on Raw Retrieval Order](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/lesson-5-reranking-improving-on-raw) _2026-08-17 · AI Engineering · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ Today we build: ## [Week 25-26: Natural Language Processing (NLP)](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/week-25-26-natural-language-processing) _2026-08-14 · sdr · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ NLP Intelligence Platform: From Fragmented NLP Scripts to a Unified Production Stack ## [Lesson 4: Hybrid Search — Combining Keyword and Vector Retrieval](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/lesson-4-hybrid-search-combining) _2026-08-13 · AI Engineering · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ Today we build: ## [Lesson 3: Embeddings — Turning Text Into Searchable Vectors](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/lesson-3-embeddings-turning-text) _2026-08-10 · AI Engineering · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ Today we build: ## [Lesson 2: Ingestion — Getting Real Data Into the System](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/lesson-2-ingestion-getting-real-data) _2026-08-06 · AI Engineering · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ Today we build: ## [Runbooks That Run Themselves](https://reliabilityengineering.substack.com/p/runbooks-that-run-themselves) _2026-08-04 · Prabesh · Reliability Engineering_ Turning operational playbooks into AI skills ## [Lesson 1: Architecture — Designing the Five-Component Pipeline](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/lesson-1-architecture-designing-the) _2026-08-03 · AI Engineering · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ Today we build: ## [Building For High Compliance Cloud How We Simplified Ato And Reduced Costs In Govcloud](https://www.aimeemarieknight.com/Building-For-High-Compliance-Cloud-How-We-Simplified-ATO-and-Reduced-Costs-In-GovCloud/) _2026-08-02 · Aimee Knight_ Deploying applications in federal environments often feels like navigating two opposing forces. On one side, you have the operational demand for rapid delivery and modern deployment patterns. On the other, you have rigid compliance frameworks, strict infrastructure controls, and legacy platform constraints. ## [Final Capstone: Build a Production NLP Intelligence System](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/final-capstone-build-a-production) _2026-08-01 · sysdai · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ What We’re Building Today ## [Finnish Seedboxes — Up to 20Gbps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ZzQteiR90Ykn) _2026-08-01 · **Sponsored**_ Private Finnish seedboxes with 1–20Gbps speeds, RAID storage and 14‑day refund ## [Week 23-24 : Computer Vision](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/week-23-24-computer-vision) _2026-07-31 · AI Engineering · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ VisionClassifier Platform: From Fragmented CV Scripts to a Unified Computer Vision Stack ## [Days 173–176: Build a Sentiment Analyzer](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/days-173176-build-a-sentiment-analyzer) _2026-07-29 · sysdai · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ Agenda ## [AI Reliability Engineering: Building a Production-Grade Multi-Agent System in 90 Days](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/ai-reliability-engineering-building) _2026-07-28 · AI Engineering · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ Introduction ## [Day 172 — Recurrent Neural Networks and LSTMs](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/day-172-recurrent-neural-networks) _2026-07-26 · sysdai · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ What We Are Building Today ## [Week 21-22 : Deep Learning with TensorFlow & PyTorch (Days 141-154)](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/week-21-22-deep-learning-with-tensorflow) _2026-07-25 · sdr · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ Introduction ## [Announcement - AI Reliability Engineering launch](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/announcement-ai-reliability-engineering) _2026-07-24 · AI Engineering · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ Something new, starting today ## [Day 171 — Word Embeddings: Word2Vec and GloVe](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/day-171-word-embeddings-word2vec) _2026-07-23 · sysdai · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ What We Cover Today ## [Day 170: Text Preprocessing and Tokenization](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/day-170-text-preprocessing-and-tokenization) _2026-07-20 · sysdai · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ What We Cover Today ## [Day 169 · Introduction to NLP — Teaching Machines to Read](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/day-169-introduction-to-nlp-teaching) _2026-07-17 · sysdai · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ Read more ## [Day 159 — Day 168 Project Kickoff: Image Classifier for a Complex Dataset](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/day-159-day-168-project-kickoff-image) _2026-07-14 · sysdai · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ Today at a Glance ## [Never miss a game (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/BHiXwC4dkHht) _2026-07-14 · **Sponsored**_ Follow any team; get an hour and one-minute web and email reminders. ## [Week 19-20 : Neural Networks from Scratch (Days 127-140)](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/week-19-20-neural-networks-from-scratch) _2026-07-13 · sdr · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ Introduction ## [Day 158 — Building a CNN for Image Classification](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/day-158-building-a-cnn-for-image) _2026-07-11 · sysdai · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ What You Will Build Today ## [Day 157: Pooling Layers and Flattening](https://aieworks.substack.com/p/day-157-pooling-layers-and-flattening) _2026-07-08 · sysdai · Hands On "AI Engineering"_ Agenda ## [That 503 Was Not Your Code](https://www.aimeemarieknight.com/That-503-Was-Not-Your-Code/) _2026-06-03 · Aimee Knight_ The alerts started coming in mid-afternoon. Intermittent 503s. Not a flat outage, not a clean failure. Just enough errors to be alarming and inconsistent enough to be confusing. The kind of thing that makes you refresh the dashboard three times hoping the number changes. ## [The Architects Observability Gap: How Gemini And Notebooklm Rebuilt My Recovery](https://www.aimeemarieknight.com/The-Architects-Observability-Gap-How-Gemini-and-Notebooklm-Rebuilt-My-Recovery/) _2026-04-07 · Aimee Knight_ As a Software Architect, my career is built on the pillars of observability, data integrity, and system reliability. When I faced two major knee surgeries over the past year—including a complex meniscus revision—I realized that the modern medical experience has a massive observability gap. Patient data is siloed, imaging is interpreted with extreme caution, and “rehab protocols” are frequently… ## [Why Your App Needs Google Cloud Canary Testing](https://www.aimeemarieknight.com/Why-Your-App-Needs-Google-Cloud-Canary-Testing/) _2026-03-05 · Aimee Knight_ In the early days of mining, canaries were the ultimate fail-safe. If the bird stopped singing, miners knew immediately that the air was toxic, giving them crucial moments to escape before disaster struck. ## [Interviewing For Gcp Roles When You Come From Aws Or Azure](https://www.aimeemarieknight.com/Interviewing-for-GCP-Roles-When-You-Come-from-AWS-or-Azure/) _2026-01-28 · Aimee Knight_ I started my cloud journey with Google Cloud Platform, and I’ll be honest—I got lucky. GCP was my first cloud, so I never had to deal with the mental overhead of translating concepts from one platform to another. But over the years, as I’ve interviewed candidates and talked with engineers making the switch, I’ve noticed a pattern: really talented people psyching themselves out about GCP simply… ## [Google Cloud Infrastructure 2025: The Year Kubernetes Got Boring](https://www.aimeemarieknight.com/Google-Cloud-Infrastructure-2025-The-Year-Kubernetes-Got-Boring/) _2025-12-12 · Aimee Knight_ If 2024 was the year AI grabbed the microphone, 2025 was the year Kubernetes quietly took the wheel again. As someone who spends more hours in kubectl than Slack, I found this year surprisingly satisfying — less drama, more maturity. We didn’t get shiny new toy announcements every quarter, but the ones we did get stuck. And for the first time in a while, “reliability” wasn’t just an SRE buzzword —… ## [The Organizational Challenge of Site Reliability Engineering](https://reliabilityengineering.substack.com/p/the-organizational-challenge-of-site) _2025-12-10 · Prabesh · Reliability Engineering_ SRE is one of the most misunderstood roles in tech. ## [Why I Miss Gcp Iam When Working in Aws](https://www.aimeemarieknight.com/Why-I-Miss-GCP-IAM-When-Working-in-AWS/) _2025-10-03 · Aimee Knight_ I’ve been working in AWS recently, and I keep catching myself missing Google Cloud Platform. Not the console UI, not the service names—specifically, IAM. ## [Real SIMs for AI Agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/h2NJ4d8CnKcE) _2025-10-02 · **Sponsored**_ Pass 2FA and verifications with real carrier numbers via our API. ## [Passing The Google Professional Cloud Developer Exam](https://www.aimeemarieknight.com/Passing-the-Google-Professional-Cloud-Developer-Exam/) _2025-09-01 · Aimee Knight_ After six years building full-stack applications and another six years in platform engineering, DevOps, and SRE, I thought I knew cloud development. When I became a Google Cloud Developer Expert this year focusing on application modernization, I figured the Professional Cloud Developer certification would be straightforward validation of what I already knew. ## [Zero-Downtime EKS Service Migration Using Weighted ALB Routing & Cross-Namespace Proxies](https://reliabilityengineering.substack.com/p/zero-downtime-eks-service-migration) _2025-06-25 · Prabesh · Reliability Engineering_ Introduction ## [Using Authentik As Forward-Auth for App With Nginx Ingress ( Authentication Using OAuth2.0 Through IdP )](https://reliabilityengineering.substack.com/p/using-authentik-as-forward-auth-for) _2025-06-13 · Prabesh · Reliability Engineering_ Introduction ## [The Evolution Of Site Reliability Engineering And Modern Architecture In The Ai Ml Era](https://www.aimeemarieknight.com/The-Evolution-of-Site-Reliability-Engineering-and-Modern-Architecture-in-the-AI-ML-Era/) _2025-02-17 · Aimee Knight_ As we stand at the intersection of traditional infrastructure and artificial intelligence, the role of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Modern Architecture is undergoing a dramatic transformation. My journey from managing the 2024 Super Bowl broadcast to tackling the challenges of MLOps illustrates this evolution and highlights the critical importance of reliability in our AI-driven future. ## [Table Of Contents](https://reliabilityengineering.substack.com/p/table-of-contents) _2025-02-06 · Prabesh · Reliability Engineering_ This blog is a knowledge base designed to help engineers upskills and explore different aspects of SRE and DevOps. Start here.. ## [Understanding Virtual Machines And Containers In Modern Infrastructure](https://www.aimeemarieknight.com/Understanding-Virtual-Machines-and-Containers-in-Modern-Infrastructure/) _2025-01-10 · Aimee Knight_ As businesses modernize and embrace cloud-native architectures, one of the biggest challenges they face is how to migrate from virtual machines (VMs) to containers. Initial excitement is met with frustration as teams encounter challenges, setbacks, as the true scope and complexity of the task become apparent. With that said, I want to address the three most common questions and concerns that I see… ## [How to - Choose the Right Instance Size for AWS RDS](https://reliabilityengineering.substack.com/p/how-to-choose-the-right-instance) _2024-10-20 · Prabesh · Reliability Engineering_ Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) offers a variety of instance types, each optimized for different workloads. ## [A Guide to Diagnosing High CPU Utilization in Postgres RDS](https://reliabilityengineering.substack.com/p/postressql-database-pinned-to-a-cpu) _2024-09-11 · Prabesh · Reliability Engineering_ RDS (Relational Database Service) is a highly managed, reliable database service, but occasionally, performance issues arise. ## [You should not be working Weekends ? Here is why](https://reliabilityengineering.substack.com/p/you-should-not-be-working-weekends) _2024-09-07 · Prabesh · Reliability Engineering_ There are compelling reasons why you shouldn’t be working on weekends, and why it’s important to focus on life, rest, and well-being during that time. ## [DNS Notes for SRE & DevOps](https://reliabilityengineering.substack.com/p/dns-notes-for-sre-and-devops) _2024-09-02 · Prabesh · Reliability Engineering_ The Domain Name System (DNS) is a fundamental component of the internet, responsible for translating human-readable domain names into machine-readable IP addresses. ## [PoC Is Not Production Ready: Ensuring Your Service Is Truly Ready for Production](https://reliabilityengineering.substack.com/p/poc-is-not-production-ready-ensuring) _2024-08-26 · Prabesh · Reliability Engineering_ When you're working on a new service, the initial excitement of seeing your Proof of Concept (PoC) come to life can be exhilarating.