Sre on Tuan Hiep TRAN — The Principal Craft

Sre on Tuan Hiep TRAN — The Principal Crafthttps://tuanhiep.github.io/principal/tags/sre/Recent content in Sre on Tuan Hiep TRAN — The Principal CraftHugo -- 0.162.1en-usFri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000Autopsy of Distributed Systems (1/4): The Observability Mirage & Zombie Consumershttps://tuanhiep.github.io/principal/posts/series_3/1.the_observability_mirage_zombie_consumers/Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://tuanhiep.github.io/principal/posts/series_3/1.the_observability_mirage_zombie_consumers/When a dashboard reports 100% health but throughput is zero, the system isn’t dead—it’s paralyzed. We dissect thread starvation, the illusion of structural health checks, and the math behind a system collapse.