Artur Asadullin

Lead Infrastructure Engineer

10 years of experience in DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering, specializing in observability and building resilient systems.

Articles by Artur Asadullin

Bending without breaking — May 15 release: OpenSSL durability, kernel fallback, PHP-FPM self-heal

May 15th, 2026 • Artur Asadullin, Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Release: 2026-05-15 - Bending without breaking: notes from a mid-May agent release

Notes from a mid-May 2026 release of our observability agent. A configurable trace sampling rate and per-process opt-out for high-volume tiers, an OpenSSL interception path that no longer tracks libssl internal layouts, a graceful-degradation mode for older kernels, PHP-FPM monitoring that self-heals across worker recycles, and a cleaner startup log.

The cost of watching — Grogh 0.17782: halved GC overhead, shared OTLP connection, leaner eBPF probes

January 30th, 2026 • Artur Asadullin, Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Grogh 0.17782: The cost of watching — notes from an observability agent release

Notes from a recent release of our observability agent. Lower GC, network, eBPF, and memory cost on the host, plus visibility into Unix sockets, PostgreSQL schemas, Redis over TLS, and same-node container connections.