Practitioner posts on managed infrastructure, observability, database operations, and post-sanctions cloud strategy in Russia and the CIS. Written by the engineers on the on-call rota — not by a marketing department.
We publish primarily in Russian, where our day-to-day work is in Russian markets. Modern browser translation tools handle our technical content well, and our recent posts in the original language are available at /blog/. Selected long-form pieces will be translated to English over time — see the upcoming topics below.
A preview of long-form posts the team is writing for the English edition. Subscribe via @irbrru or ping us to be notified.
A breakdown of in-house vs. outsourced DevOps for mid-market companies — fully loaded TCO, on-call premiums, the cost of a single P1 outage, and where the savings are real vs. where they hide.
Coming soon
A practical playbook for moving workloads off AWS/Azure to Yandex Cloud, VK Cloud and Selectel — what the API gaps look like in practice, where IaC needs rework, and how to keep an exit option open.
Coming soon
How we structure on-call rotations, what alerts make the cut into the pager and which get demoted to dashboards, and the runbook patterns that survived three years of production fire drills.
Coming soon
Backup verification that actually catches corruption, point-in-time recovery rehearsals, vacuuming and bloat at scale, and the failover drill we run every quarter on production replicas.
Coming soon
If you have a runbook gap, a recurring incident, or a migration on the calendar — we will scope a fix in the first conversation.