Four signals, five backends, one Helm-shaped afternoon: how I run logs, metrics, traces and profiles without paying a vendor.

Turns out Git Bash is slow by design — here's how to swap it out for Warp Terminal and portable PowerShell on a locked-down Windows work machine without touching admin settings.

We used Istio before ArgoCD. Here's how I reinstalled Istio on GKE with ArgoCD without losing the previous configurations.