Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• Practice

  Reliability is a Feature, Not a Guardrail

  Why "100% uptime" is the wrong goal, and how to build systems that embrace failure instead of fighting it.

  10 Jan, 2026

  · 4 min read Sowmya Shree
• Observability

  The Millisecond Watchdog: Monitoring Rules for Low-Latency Trading

  In low-latency trading, averages are lies. Here are the monitoring rules — covering market data, execution, and post-trade reconciliation — that actually matter.

  1 Jan, 2026

  · 4 min read Sowmya Shree
• Incidents

  The On-Call Rotation Playbook: Building a Sustainable Schedule

  A rotation that burns out your best engineers within a year isn't a reliability win, no matter how fast your MTTR looks on the dashboard.

  12 Nov, 2025

  · 11 min read Sowmya Shree
• Practice

  Feature Flags and Progressive Delivery: Shrinking the Blast Radius

  Deployment and release used to be the same event. Feature flags broke that assumption apart, and in doing so, changed what it means to ship safely.

  30 Sep, 2025

  · 11 min read Sowmya Shree