Peter's Blog

During the Buffer 2026 retreat in Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸 (more on that later); I confessed something to a lot of Bufferoos: I'm on a quest to find the best Tres Leches cake in the world.

2025 has been an interesting year for me in terms of travel.

November was an extremely busy month for me and I wasn't able to get 8 hours of sleep for ~19 days back-to-back.

Kubernetes offers three types of probes: Startup (checks if the app has begun running), Readiness (continuously checks if it’s ready for traffic), and Liveness (continuously checks if it’s still running).

When a critical incident happens, it's a natural reaction to start guessing (and second-guessing) what the problem is.

As software engineers, we've travelled through many different languages and frameworks.

Context Buffer has a lot of interdependent backend micro-services and workers.

Hi, I'm Peter 👋 I'm originally from Cairo, Egypt (yes, the one with the Pyramids) and am a Senior SRE II at Buffer.