Engineering Resilience
& Reactive Interfaces.
About Me
Hi I am Abbey and I write software and architect cloud systems. For me, engineering is about bringing order to chaos. I believe the best systems are simple, reliable, and built to last. This blog is where I document what I learn, honestly, including the wrong turns
Featured Projects
Lleven V2: Scale & Security
The next generation of the Lleven engine, featuring asynchronous processing, resilient data pipelines, and a secure user identity layer.
Lleven V1: The Genesis
The first version of Lleven, a synchronous processing engine designed to transform raw Mobile Money PDFs into structured spending analytics.
Iris — Giving LGTM a brain
A production-grade infrastructure monitoring platform built for KNUST that automates server onboarding and incident management.
Blog / Thoughts
Building a Production Monitoring Stack from Scratch — Part 4: The Enrollment API
Eliminating manual SSH work — and why the solution ended up living inside Grafana.
Building a Production Monitoring Stack from Scratch — Part 3: Loki, Tempo & the Full Observability Picture
Adding log aggregation with Loki and distributed tracing with Tempo — completing the metrics, logs, and traces picture.
Building a Production Monitoring Stack from Scratch — Part 2: Grafana Alloy & the Push vs Pull Problem
Why we replaced individual exporters with Grafana Alloy, why push-based metrics silently broke our alerting, and what it took to figure that out.
When Packets Disappear: Debugging an MTU Mismatch in a Hybrid OpenStack Docker Swarm
A deep dive into networking, resource limits, and automated scaling strategies for Docker Swarm on OpenStack.