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Shell Ygin

London, UK

I'm a London-based Principal DevOps engineer with 12+ years building reliable, secure platforms at scale.

Open-Source Developer Platforms Unleashed: How Backstage, Gitea, and Kraken CI Solve DevOps Collaboration Nightmares with Production-Grade Implementation

Open-Source Developer Platforms Unleashed: How Backstage, Gitea, and Kraken CI Solve DevOps Collaboration Nightmares with Production-Grade Implementation

1. Introduction: The DevOps Collaboration Crisis Did you know that fragmented tooling can cost teams up to 30% in lost productivity? It’s a brutal fact I’ve encountered firsthand—teams trapped in a web of disjointed developer portals, incompatible CI pipelines, and hostile onboarding processes. If your environment setup

Data and Infrastructure Monitoring Reinvented: How Telmai, Better Stack, and Robusta Deliver AI-Powered Operational Intelligence for DevOps Teams

Data and Infrastructure Monitoring Reinvented: How Telmai, Better Stack, and Robusta Deliver AI-Powered Operational Intelligence for DevOps Teams

How many times have you been bombarded with alerts that scream emergency but turn out to be nothing more than background noise? It’s not just frustrating—it’s downright dangerous. In the tangled web of modern DevOps, more monitoring tools often mean more missed signals and endless alert fatigue.

Data and Infrastructure Monitoring Reinvented: How Telmai, Better Stack, and Robusta Deliver AI-Powered Operational Intelligence for DevOps Teams

Data and Infrastructure Monitoring Reinvented: How Telmai, Better Stack, and Robusta Deliver AI-Powered Operational Intelligence for DevOps Teams

1. Introduction: The Monitoring Quagmire in Modern DevOps Did you know that piling on more monitoring tools often worsens outages rather than preventing them? It’s a brutal paradox I’ve faced countless times: after painstakingly building dashboards, alerts, and traces, your system erupts in a cacophony of false alarms

Specialized Monitoring Solutions for Modern Applications: Unlocking Real-Time API Insights, Session Replay, and High-Cardinality Metrics with Treblle, Highlight.io, and Last9 Levitate

Specialized Monitoring Solutions for Modern Applications: Unlocking Real-Time API Insights, Session Replay, and High-Cardinality Metrics with Treblle, Highlight.io, and Last9 Levitate

Introduction: The Monitoring Minefield in Modern Applications What if your monitoring system is the very thing that’s dragging your incident response into chaos? After decades of grappling with monitoring stacks that boast the stars but deliver little more than confusion—and yes, existential dread—I’m convinced the traditional

Open-Source Observability Revolution: How Uptrace, OpenObserve, and Vector Solve Complexity, Cost, and Performance Bottlenecks in Modern Systems

Open-Source Observability Revolution: How Uptrace, OpenObserve, and Vector Solve Complexity, Cost, and Performance Bottlenecks in Modern Systems

1. The Observability Pain Nobody Talks About Ever felt like your monitoring tools are conspiring against you? I’m not exaggerating when I say the real culprit in many organisations is not the complexity of systems but the cacophony generated by the observability stack itself. Costs explode, alert fatigue drains