HelloWorld

Hi, I’m Mustafa Karci. This is my first blog post, so I’d like to start with a brief introduction.

My background is in cloud-native, open-source observability and distributed systems. I began my career as a system administrator, managing VMware/XenServer and bare-metal environments running Debian (Woody) and CentOS(5/6/7), well before containers and Kubernetes became mainstream. Over time, my focus shifted toward distributed systems, Kubernetes platform engineering, and ultimately observability at scale.

A special shout-out to a true wizard for sparking my early interest in this space 🙂

Throughout the years, I’ve worked hands-on with a wide range of observability platforms and tooling, both open-source and commercial, including:

• LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir)
• Thanos
• Splunk Observability
• Dynatrace
• ELK Stack (self-hosted on Kubernetes)
• OpenTelemetry
• Kubernetes

In this blog, I’ll be sharing practical insights, architectural patterns, and real-world lessons learned from building and operating observability solutions in cloud-native environments.