Jambo Blog

Engineering notes from building and operating the Jambo project — a real-time multiplayer card game backend in Rust (Actix Web), with Kubernetes, Docker, and the Grafana LGTM observability stack. Play the game at jambo.tombislab.com.

Posts

• 2026-10-04 — Database Backups for a Live Game: One Script, Two Deployment Models · postgresql, backup, restore, s3, kubernetes, docker
• 2026-09-25 — Solid Observability in a Rust API · observability, opentelemetry, rust, actix-web
• 2026-09-17 — Spectator Mode: A Native Read-Only Stream View · websocket, rust, redis, react
• 2026-08-21 — Configuring Promtail for Dynamic Log Discovery in Loki · observability, grafana, loki, kubernetes
• 2026-08-05 — Why Grafana LGTM Replaced Both Sentry and SigNoz · observability, grafana, lgtm, sentry, signoz, alerting
• 2026-07-08 — How We Found and Fixed 20+ Silent Failures in Production · rust, reliability, redis, websocket
• 2026-06-22 — Debugging a 504 Gateway Timeout: Docker Multi-Network DNS · docker, networking, dns, traefik