Recent Articles - Microservices
I Don't Want to Have to Think About It
Jul 26, 2025 · 6 min read
I spent a substantial amount of time in the first half of 2025 ensuring that I don't have to think about microservices my team owns that have a low rate of change.
Heimdall: Attentive's Event Tracing Platform
Aug 28, 2024 · 13 min read
This article was originally posted on the Attentive Tech Blog.
Types of Probes in Kubernetes
Feb 19, 2022 · 4 min read
It's tempting to use the same health check endpoint for multiple probes in Kubernetes, but the kubelet uses each probe for very different purposes.
Writing Meaningful Health Check Endpoints
Feb 14, 2022 · 6 min read
If your health check endpoints return a hard-coded response then you don't actually know the health of your service.