Notes on reliability, data, and making things that last.
I am Jian, a Site Reliability Engineer based in Melbourne. My work at ANZ centres on automation and Google Cloud. This site is where I write about reliability, engineering practice, and the open-source software I maintain.
Latest writing
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Using a coding agent as an observability agent
A coding agent can be an observability agent, given one remote MCP server and a config change.
Vibe coding an old blog into something I would actually use
Three days with Cursor, a janky Hugo site, and the surprising amount of guidance an AI still needs.
Selected work
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Malaysia API
A static REST API of Malaysian states and federal territories. JSON files, no database, on purpose.
AITA store
A Reddit crawler, SQLite store, and dashboard for r/AmItheAsshole. Sentiment, word clouds, later FastAPI.