Code, reliability, and the occasional outage.

Mubeen writes about programming, SRE and technology: what works in production, and what broke on the way.

mubeen@blog: ~

$ whoami
mubeen — developer, SRE, writer
$ ls topics/
programming  sre  devops  cloud  tech
$ tail -n 1 schedule.log
new article every week
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$ ls -t articles/

New articles on programming, SRE and technology.

SRE

Giving an AI agent access to production is not a yes-or-no decision. The useful question is which actions it gets, under which…

October 23, 2026 7 min read

TOON is a compact format built to cut token use in LLM prompts. Here’s what it is, how it compares to JSON,…

October 17, 2026 4 min read

I'm an engineer who writes about programming, SRE and technology.