heads-down · not on the market
kyiv, ukraine
uid · nb-2025-staff
nikita
bolotov_
staff backend engineer / platform engineer
Staff Backend Engineer writing about Platform Engineering, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and Developer Experience.
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nikita bolotov
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staff · platform
stack
go · k8s · helm
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8.0 yr / online
latest dispatches
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2026 · 10
The Agent Says "Done". The Telemetry Has Questions
An AI agent can return 200 OK and still fail the task. A generalized approach to observing agents with OpenTelemetry, the GenAI semantic conventions and Elastic APM: one trace across the service and the agent, tokens and cost, dashboards, evals, and the traps that make panels lie.
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2026 · 09
An SRE Agent in Two Days: What Our Vibeathon Was Really Like
Artem Chernenko and I joined the AI Agents.PRO vibeathon with a rough idea for an SRE agent. A coding agent gave us a working system quickly. The real work was turning that first draft into something we could test, explain, and trust.
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2026 · 06
Treating AI Coding Tools Like a Platform Product
Notes on shipping AI assistant skills, agents, hooks, and MCP context as a versioned platform instead of letting everyone run their own prompts. With evals and a couple of numbers that actually moved.
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2025 · 11
Observability as Code: My Backend Meetup Talk, Now in Writing
A written adaptation of my Backend Meetup talk on observability in microservices — from the three pillars and OpenTelemetry to Terraform-managed alerts and on-call workflows.
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2025 · 06
Supply Chain Security in Practice: From Container Scanning to Compliance
A practical guide to securing your CI/CD pipeline: container vulnerability scanning, secrets management, SHA pinning, and preparing for compliance audits.
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focusplatform-engineering
stackgo · php · k8s · helm
writingobservability · supply-chain · dx
speakingbackend meetup
learningfwdays · highload
open_totalks · collab · coffee
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Observability isn't a tool you install — it's a practice you build. See it. Trace it. Fix it.
— from "Observability as Code", backend meetup '24