The Anatomy of a Production Outage

Walking through a real outage from the first alert to the last line of the post-mortem — what happened, what slowed the response, and what changed afterwards.

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DevOps· Jan 14, 2025

The Art of the Technical Postmortem

A postmortem is not a punishment. It is the mechanism by which incidents convert into system improvements.

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DevOps· Jun 22, 2024

On-Call Engineering: The Survival Guide

Being on-call is a craft. There are habits that make it sustainable, and habits that make it miserable.

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DevOps· Jun 30, 2023

GitHub Actions Is All the CI/CD Most Projects Need

The CI/CD landscape has never been richer — or more overcomplicated. GitHub Actions covers 90% of real-world needs.

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DevOps· Apr 15, 2023

Monitoring Is Not Optional. It Is the Job.

An application without monitoring is one whose failures you will learn about from your users.

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DevOps· Mar 22, 2023

The Git Workflow That Keeps Production Deployments Boring

Boring deployments are the goal. Here is the Git branching strategy and deployment discipline that makes deployments a non-event.

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DevOps· Nov 08, 2022

Docker in Production: What Nobody Tells You

The documentation tells you how to build images. It does not tell you about the production realities.

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DevOps· Nov 03, 2020

Stop Deploying by Hand. I Mean It.

Manual deployments are not a rite of passage. They are a liability.