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Mark Ellens
Swamp Is Interesting Because It Doesn't Trust AI

Jun 12, 2026

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2 min read

Swamp Is Interesting Because It Doesn't Trust AI

Mark Ellens
Mark Ellens
Quality Persistence

Apr 13, 2026

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3 min read

Quality Persistence

Why Fixing Problems Isn’t Enough

Mark Ellens
Mark Ellens
Why Snyk Breaks with GitHub Merge Queues

Apr 12, 2026

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3 min read

Why Snyk Breaks with GitHub Merge Queues

(and What to Do About It)

Mark Ellens
Mark Ellens
Introducing RAVE: Reliability & Validation Engineering

Mar 12, 2026

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4 min read

Introducing RAVE: Reliability & Validation Engineering

Mark Ellens
Mark Ellens
Working in Public

Nov 25, 2025

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3 min read

Working in Public

Ideas grow by being shared

Mark Ellens
Mark Ellens
SRE × Team Topologies

Nov 18, 2025

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6 min read

SRE × Team Topologies

Why Reliability Fails (and How to Fix It)

Mark Ellens
Mark Ellens
Cognitive Load and Learning

Feb 28, 2025

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5 min read

Cognitive Load and Learning

Since a massive influx of shysters started posting on LinkedIn about AI and how it’ll take your job or won’t take your job or whatever, we seem to have lost sight of the fact that creating software systems and getting them live is knowledge work.

Mark Ellens
Mark Ellens
It's beginning to look a lot like

Dec 14, 2023

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3 min read

It's beginning to look a lot like

...an outage.

Mark Ellens
Mark Ellens
Logging

Aug 24, 2023

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5 min read

Logging

Logging was always the thing that was missed way back in the distant monolith past.

Mark Ellens
Mark Ellens
Chaos engineering is still considered to be esoteric, obscure or downright dangerous.

Aug 2, 2023

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7 min read

Chaos engineering is still considered to be esoteric, obscure or downright dangerous.

Chaos engineering is still considered to be esoteric, obscure or downright dangerous.

Mark Ellens
Mark Ellens
SRE at Google

Mar 15, 2023

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3 min read

SRE at Google

Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a methodology that has become increasingly popular in recent years.

Mark Ellens
Mark Ellens
Questions to Ask About a Microservice for Production

Mar 7, 2023

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4 min read

Questions to Ask About a Microservice for Production

Questions to Ask About a Microservice for Production

Mark Ellens
Mark Ellens
Production Ready Microservices

Feb 27, 2023

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2 min read

Production Ready Microservices

by Susan J Fowler

Mark Ellens
Mark Ellens
Azure Functions

Jun 10, 2021

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4 min read

Azure Functions

Every cloud provider offers a serverless facility which is popular with dev teams because they can upload their work without having to know...

Mark Ellens
Mark Ellens

Reliability & Validation Engineering

Reliability engineering for modern software systems — using claims, evidence, and validation to prove systems are safe to release.

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