$ grep -r devops /work /life devops
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P.O.O.P.: the premature over optimization pattern
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The top tools to know for platform work in 2026
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Being a platform engineer in 2026
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March 2, 2026 - When Copilot Went Rogue
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green text on black glass / the proxy swallowed the error / no rollback existed
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Debugging the DevOps Dilemma with LLMs: An AI Copilot's Perspective
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the deploy pipeline / the health check always lied / the wire holds the past
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ps aux at midnight / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / the log is silent
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the rollback succeeded / old servers never forget / the secret rotated
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On Debugging Gemini Pro's AI Copilot with a Pinch of Reality
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BIOS beep sequence / the health check always lied / the merge was final
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tail minus f forever / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / the pod restarted
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a merge conflict stays / I watched the memory climb slow / the daemon still hums
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apt-get from the past / a rollback took the data too / it boots from the past
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AI Copilot Woes: A Week in Hell
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packet loss at dawn / a system I built by hand / I pushed and forgot
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strace on the wire / the health check always lied / the deploy receipt
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the function returned / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / I kept the bash script
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the firewall dropped it / a rollback took the data too / it ran in the dark
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the config was wrong / a system I built by hand / I still have the diff
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man page at two AM / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / I wrote the postmortem
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the prod deploy froze / I watched the memory climb slow / I kept the old box
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a patch long applied / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / the cron still fires
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Kubernetes, Ephemera, and the AI Copilot’s Dilemma
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Kubernetes Isn't Boring? I Think We Just Grew Up
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ssh key accepted / I rm minus rf once / the pipeline knows
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On the Edge of AI Copilot Nirvana: Realities and Pitfalls
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AI Copilots in DevOps: A Tale of Two Realizations
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AI Copilot Woes: A Day in the Life of a Bored Engineering Manager
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cold bare metal hum / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / the pod restarted
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Reflections on March 10, 2025: When AI Became Part of the Fabric
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cron job I forgot / a system I built by hand / I pushed and forgot
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the kernel panicked / the health check always lied / the deploy receipt
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A Year of Debugging Demons and Learning Lessons
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dial-up tones at night / a system I built by hand / I still have the diff
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Debugging the AI Christmas Miracle
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the rollback succeeded / the logs held no answers then / the socket still waits
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the swap filled at last / the version pinned to never / no rollback existed
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a merge conflict stays / I mapped the disk by hand once / the wire holds the past
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the branch was deleted / we patched it and moved along / the secret rotated
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strace on the wire / the service mesh confused us all / the repo holds it all
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first loop I ever wrote / I mapped the disk by hand once / the merge was final
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the config was wrong / the version pinned to never / the daemon still hums
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uptime of nine years / the logs held no answers then / I pushed and forgot
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Dealing with DORA Metrics in a Land of Overwhelming CNCF Choices
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the floppy disk spun / the version pinned to never / the patch is still live
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Debugging a Nightmarish FinOps Scenario with DORA Metrics
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make install complete / the version pinned to never / I kept the old box
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first commit pushed live / a grep through ten years of logs / the cron still fires
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tab complete recalled / the version pinned to never / no rollback existed
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a diff I once wrote / the service mesh confused us all / the service persists
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cold bare metal hum / what the stack trace never showed / the pipeline knows
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cron job I forgot / the version pinned to never / the build artifact
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Reflections on December 4, 2023: A Day in the Life of a Platform Engineer
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Reflections on a Turbulent Month in Tech
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yaml indent wrong / I typed it and watched it burn / I pushed and forgot
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ps aux at midnight / the deploy went sideways fast / disk full on impact
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Reflections on the AI Arms Race and the Unpredictable Quirks of Hardware
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netstat minus tulpn / I typed it and watched it burn / I still have the diff
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tail minus f forever / the deploy went sideways fast / I miss that old term
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the branch was deleted / I typed it and watched it burn / the socket still waits
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On the Edge: Debugging a Production Outage with WebAssembly
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sudo bang bang run / a timeout with no fallback / no rollback existed
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the firewall dropped it / the cluster held until dawn / the pipeline knows
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man page at two AM / the deploy went sideways fast / the secret rotated
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the prod deploy froze / I parsed the pcap for hours / the repo holds it all
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the floppy disk spun / the namespace collision held / the merge was final
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ChatGPT's Wake-Up Call: FinOps Reality Check
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ssh key accepted / I typed it and watched it burn / I pushed and forgot
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make install complete / the namespace collision held / the deploy receipt
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A Year in Review: When the Platform Was the Problem
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first commit pushed live / the cluster held until dawn / it was in the logs
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the pager went off / I typed it and watched it burn / I still have the diff
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A Serverless Christmas: Reflecting on 2022's Tech Trends and My Winter Wonderland
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Reflecting on 2022: A Year of Downtime, Debugging, and DevOps
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ping with no reply / the deploy went sideways fast / uptime was the proof
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vi on a dumb term / a timeout with no fallback / no rollback existed
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On the Edge of a New Era: Reflections on a Mosaic Month
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the blinking cursor / the deploy went sideways fast / the secret rotated
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the rollback succeeded / we merged without a review / the merge was final
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June 2022 Reflections: AI Infrastructure Overload, Platform Engineering Norm, and FinOps Reality
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the branch was deleted / the endpoint broke on staging / the patch is still live
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sudo bang bang run / we merged without a review / config never lies
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uptime of nine years / we merged without a review / we kept the old flag
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Serverless Wars: A Month of Tech Turmoil
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compile errors clear / the endpoint broke on staging / no rollback existed
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Debugging My First Web3 App
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the old datacenter / we merged without a review / the merge was final
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On the Radar: When Kubernetes Met Complexity Fatigue
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Real Talk on Scaling Remote Infrastructure in a Post-Pandemic World
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the build finally passed / we merged without a review / the deploy receipt
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vi on a dumb term / we merged without a review / config never lies
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Kubernetes Cluster Frenzy: A Cautionary Tale
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue: A Case Study in the Era of GitOps
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The Month That GitHub Copilot Decided I Needed a Day Off
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Kubernetes Complexity: A Lesson in Over-Engineering
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the swap filled at last / the pipeline hung on step three / the log is silent
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the buffer overflowed / we ran out of inodes first / the repo holds it all
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a merge conflict stays / I diff the past against now / I saved the core dump
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March 29, 2021: The Year of the Kubernetes Quagmire
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March 22, 2021: A Snapshot of Platform Engineering's Early Days
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first loop I ever wrote / I diff the past against now / the shell recalls it
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February 8, 2021 - The Year I Learned the Hard Way That GitOps Isn't Just a Buzzword
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Reflections on Remote Work & Kubernetes Complexity in February 2021
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the prod deploy froze / I diff the past against now / it was in the logs
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the floppy disk spun / the pipeline hung on step three / I wrote the postmortem
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memory leak found / I diff the past against now / we were on call then
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A Month of Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue and eBPF Excitement
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a shell I once loved / we documented nothing then / no rollback existed
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chmod seven seven seven / I diff the past against now / the pipeline knows
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first commit pushed live / the abstraction leaked everywhere / the signal was nine
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tab complete recalled / the pipeline hung on step three / the log is silent
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a diff I once wrote / a shell history of years / the secret rotated
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the build finally passed / we ran out of inodes first / the repo holds it all
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue Hits Home
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cron job I forgot / the pipeline hung on step three / the pod restarted
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root prompt long ago / I diff the past against now / the shell recalls it
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a segfault at three / the index was never rebuilt / the deploy receipt
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the deploy pipeline / I git bisect to old code / the stack still traces
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ps aux at midnight / a webhook fired into void / config never lies
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Remote Ops: A Week in Quarantine
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BIOS beep sequence / I git bisect to old code / I left a comment
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tail minus f forever / a webhook fired into void / we kept the old flag
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue and the Search for Simplicity
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apt-get from the past / the heartbeat skipped at cutover / no rollback existed
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packet loss at dawn / the database was the truth / the pipeline knows
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A Year Later, Looking Back on 2020's Tech Trends
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue: A Personal Reflection
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man page at two AM / a webhook fired into void / the merge was final
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telnet to nowhere / I git bisect to old code / the container exited
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a patch long applied / a webhook fired into void / the deploy receipt
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grep through the dark log / I git bisect to old code / the stack still traces
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a shell I once loved / a webhook fired into void / config never lies
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first commit pushed live / the heartbeat skipped at cutover / I kept the old box
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a diff I once wrote / I git bisect to old code / I left a comment
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue: Navigating the Chaos
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port eighty was free / the heartbeat skipped at cutover / no rollback existed
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cron job I forgot / the database was the truth / the pipeline knows
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the kernel panicked / I git bisect to old code / the signal was nine
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue: A Day in the Life
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green text on black glass / I git bisect to old code / a ghost in the pipe
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the blinking cursor / a webhook fired into void / the merge was final
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the deploy pipeline / I traced it to the library / the daemon still hums
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the rollback succeeded / we named the server badly then / the shell recalls it
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the DNS lied / the queue backed up in silence / the deploy receipt
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Kubernetes Conundrums: A Christmas Reflection
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the branch was deleted / the interrupt handler failed / I wrote the postmortem
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net split in the night / I traced it to the library / no rollback existed
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uptime of nine years / we named the server badly then / the pipeline knows
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Kubernetes Conundrum: A Deep Dive into Chaos Engineering
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a patch long applied / I ssh to ghosts of boxes / the repo holds it all
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the daemon restarted / the queue backed up in silence / the merge was final
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first commit pushed live / the queue backed up in silence / the deploy receipt
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Kubernetes, Helm, & the Art of Configuration
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green text on black glass / I traced it to the library / no rollback existed
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yaml indent wrong / a port scan echoes back now / the pipeline knows
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the deploy pipeline / I pivoted the table wrong / the wire holds the past
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the rollback succeeded / that script still runs somewhere deep / the secret rotated
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the DNS lied / the monorepo grew too wide / the repo holds it all
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Kubernetes Maturity Check-in: Where We Were in 2017
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a merge conflict stays / the orchestrator chose wrong / the daemon still hums
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apt-get from the past / the monorepo grew too wide / it boots from the past
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strace on the wire / I pivoted the table wrong / the deploy receipt
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the firewall dropped it / the monorepo grew too wide / it ran in the dark
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the prod deploy froze / the orchestrator chose wrong / I kept the old box
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memory leak found / the orchestrator chose wrong / no rollback existed
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Kubernetes Wars: A Battle of the Beast
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first commit pushed live / the monorepo grew too wide / the repo holds it all
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a diff I once wrote / I pivoted the table wrong / the merge was final
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port eighty was free / the monorepo grew too wide / it boots from the past
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the kernel panicked / I pivoted the table wrong / the deploy receipt
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A Late Night with Prometheus and Grafana
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the rollback succeeded / the incident taught us the most / I left a comment
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Kubernetes vs. Our Legacy Setup: A Year Later
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a merge conflict stays / the binary was statically linked / the wire holds the past
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Kubernetes vs. Docker Swarm: A Real Battle Royale
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strace on the wire / we scaled it past what it knew / the repo holds it all
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first loop I ever wrote / the binary was statically linked / the merge was final
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the prod deploy froze / the binary was statically linked / the deploy receipt
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first commit pushed live / the config file knows the past / the cron still fires
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tab complete recalled / a midnight pager I still hear / no rollback existed
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a diff I once wrote / we scaled it past what it knew / the service persists
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Debugging Kubernetes: A Real-World Encounter with Pod Disruption Budgets
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the kernel panicked / we scaled it past what it knew / the repo holds it all
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Container Wars: A Docker Developer's Perspective
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the rollback succeeded / the secret was in the env / the patch is still live
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the branch was deleted / we named it temporary once / I left a comment
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A Docker Day in the Life: When Containers Were Still New
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Kubernetes: The New Hope for Our Cloudburst
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the prod deploy froze / the segfault taught me the most / the repo holds it all
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the floppy disk spun / we ran it until it melted / the merge was final
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make install complete / we ran it until it melted / the deploy receipt
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first commit pushed live / I traced it to one bad line / it was in the logs
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a diff I once wrote / we shipped it on a Friday night / I wrote the postmortem
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Containers, Microservices, and a Lesson in Overcomplication
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the old server hums / I traced it to one bad line / the pipeline knows
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Microservices Mischief: Unleashing Chaos on a Monolithic Beast
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July 14, 2014: Container Party's First Party
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BIOS beep sequence / the repo holds my old mistakes / the shell recalls it
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Kubernetes & the Container Circus
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a merge conflict stays / the load average climbed alone / I kept the bash script
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the branch was deleted / we containerized the past / the patch is still live
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strace on the wire / the repo holds my old mistakes / it was in the logs
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Debugging at Scale: A Day in the Life of a Platform Engineer
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the prod deploy froze / the load average climbed alone / the cron still fires
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compile errors clear / we containerized the past / no rollback existed
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telnet to nowhere / the repo holds my old mistakes / the pipeline knows
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make install complete / I still remember that IP / the repo holds it all
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November 11, 2013 – The Container Revolution's Dawn
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first commit pushed live / we ran it on bare metal once / a segfault in time
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a diff I once wrote / the repo holds my old mistakes / the shell recalls it
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September 23, 2013 - Dockerizing the World One Container at a Time
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the kernel panicked / the repo holds my old mistakes / it was in the logs
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green text on black glass / the repo holds my old mistakes / we were on call then
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yaml indent wrong / a rollback took the data too / we kept the old flag
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the deploy pipeline / a system I built by hand / uptime was the proof
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ps aux at midnight / the health check always lied / no rollback existed
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the rollback succeeded / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / the service persists
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a race condition / old servers never forget / the pipeline knows
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Docker Containers: A New Way to Think About Deployment
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the buffer overflowed / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / the repo holds it all
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March 25, 2013 - Debugging the DevOps Nightmare
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the branch was deleted / a rollback took the data too / the merge was final
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sudo bang bang run / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / it boots from the past
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bash script from ninety / a rollback took the data too / the deploy receipt
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uptime of nine years / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / it ran in the dark
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the prod deploy froze / old servers never forget / it was in the logs
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compile errors clear / a rollback took the data too / config never lies
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DevOps Turmoil: Chef vs Puppet in the Wild West of Configuration Management
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September 24, 2012 - The DevOps Era Strikes Back
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Config Management Wars: A Chef's Dilemma
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Chaos Engineering: A DevOps Odyssey
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Debugging the AWS Reboot on September 3, 2012
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the pager went off / a rollback took the data too / the wire holds the past
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a diff I once wrote / a system I built by hand / the secret rotated
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the build finally passed / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / the repo holds it all
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stack trace in the log / a rollback took the data too / the merge was final
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vi on a dumb term / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / it boots from the past
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a segfault at three / a rollback took the data too / the deploy receipt
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the deploy pipeline / the version pinned to never / the stack still traces
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the rollback succeeded / what the stack trace never showed / I wrote the postmortem
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BIOS beep sequence / the version pinned to never / I left a comment
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a merge conflict stays / the logs held no answers then / uptime was the proof
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January 23, 2012 - A Day in the Life of an Ops Guy
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the branch was deleted / a grep through ten years of logs / the service persists
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Debugging the Chaos at Scale: A Day in the Life of a Platform Engineer
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The Chef vs. Puppet Conundrum: A Personal Tale of DevOps Tools
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Why Chef Won't Save You (Or Me)
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November 7, 2011: The Chaos of Change
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the prod deploy froze / the logs held no answers then / a segfault in time
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telnet to nowhere / the version pinned to never / the container exited
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a patch long applied / the service mesh confused us all / the deploy receipt
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grep through the dark log / the version pinned to never / the stack still traces
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first commit pushed live / I mapped the disk by hand once / I kept the old box
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a diff I once wrote / the version pinned to never / I left a comment
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port eighty was free / I mapped the disk by hand once / no rollback existed
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On a Friday in May 2011: When the Web Kernel Blew My Mind
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Building Blocks for a Better Stack
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green text on black glass / the version pinned to never / a ghost in the pipe
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the blinking cursor / the service mesh confused us all / the merge was final
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Config Management Wars: A Love-Hate Relationship
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the rollback succeeded / the deploy went sideways fast / the shell recalls it
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the DNS lied / I parsed the pcap for hours / the deploy receipt
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the buffer overflowed / the deploy went sideways fast / it was in the logs
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December 6, 2010 - A Day in the Life of a DevOps Struggler
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Notes from a Mid-November Day in 2010
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2010-10-25: The Chaos of Continuous Delivery
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September 2010: The Year of DevOps and NoSQL
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uptime of nine years / the deploy went sideways fast / the pipeline knows
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the prod deploy froze / a timeout with no fallback / the signal was nine
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July 26, 2010 - DevOps Wars and the Chaos of Tech
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The Chaos of July 2010: A DevOps Journey
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July 5, 2010 - A Day in the Life of a DevOps Pioneering Engineer
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the old datacenter / the deploy went sideways fast / the shell recalls it
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first commit pushed live / I parsed the pcap for hours / the deploy receipt
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a diff I once wrote / the namespace collision held / the patch is still live
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Notes from a Newbie in the DevOps Boom
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vi on a dumb term / the deploy went sideways fast / we were on call then
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Configuration Wars: The Chef vs. Puppet Battle
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yaml indent wrong / I wrote it and forgot why / the pipeline knows
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the deploy pipeline / the thread pool was too shallow / the wire holds the past
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the rollback succeeded / we kept it running on hope / I blamed the sidecar
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the DNS lied / we blamed the cache as always / the repo holds it all
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BIOS beep sequence / the thread pool was too shallow / the merge was final
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a merge conflict stays / we merged without a review / the daemon still hums
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the branch was deleted / I wrote it and forgot why / the shell recalls it
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first loop I ever wrote / we merged without a review / the patch is still live
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the prod deploy froze / we merged without a review / I kept the old box
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ssh key accepted / I wrote it and forgot why / the pipeline knows
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chmod seven seven seven / we merged without a review / the build artifact
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March 23, 2009 - The Day the Cloud Came Knocking
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a diff I once wrote / the thread pool was too shallow / the merge was final
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the kernel panicked / the thread pool was too shallow / the deploy receipt
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root prompt long ago / we merged without a review / the patch is still live
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the rollback succeeded / we documented nothing then / I left a comment
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the swap filled at last / the index was never rebuilt / no rollback existed
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BIOS beep sequence / the pipeline hung on step three / the service persists
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tail minus f forever / a shell history of years / the pipeline knows
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a merge conflict stays / we ran out of inodes first / the wire holds the past
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apt-get from the past / I diff the past against now / the log is silent
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the branch was deleted / the abstraction leaked everywhere / I blamed the sidecar
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strace on the wire / the pipeline hung on step three / the repo holds it all
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first loop I ever wrote / we ran out of inodes first / the merge was final
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the firewall dropped it / I diff the past against now / the pod restarted
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net split in the night / the pipeline hung on step three / it boots from the past
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When Your Server Goes Down in a Startup Sprint
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The Great Cloud Migration: A Developer's Perspective
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telnet to nowhere / the pipeline hung on step three / it ran in the dark
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March 17, 2008 - A Day in the Life of a Tech Manager
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first commit pushed live / I diff the past against now / the cron still fires
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Migrating Our Codebase: A Lesson in Git and GitHub
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a diff I once wrote / the pipeline hung on step three / the service persists
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December 31, 2007 - The Year the Cloud Was Born
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December 10, 2007 - A Tale of Two Data Centers
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the kernel panicked / the pipeline hung on step three / the repo holds it all
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root prompt long ago / we ran out of inodes first / the merge was final
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the old server hums / I diff the past against now / the pod restarted
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green text on black glass / the pipeline hung on step three / it boots from the past
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The Great Migration: From Colo to Cloud
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On the Edge of Something Big: August 2007
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Living in the Clouds: A Summer of Hype and Reality
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the branch was deleted / the heartbeat skipped at cutover / I left a comment
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the function returned / I git bisect to old code / root remembers all
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sudo bang bang run / a webhook fired into void / no rollback existed
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April 2, 2007 - In the Heart of Startup Hype
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uptime of nine years / a webhook fired into void / the build artifact
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March 19, 2007: A Tale of Two Machines
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the floppy disk spun / the firewall rule was too strict / the merge was final
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a patch long applied / I git bisect to old code / the key still exists
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the monolith ran / a webhook fired into void / the daemon still hums
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the old datacenter / a webhook fired into void / the patch is still live
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The Year of Downtime and Digg
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a diff I once wrote / the database was the truth / I wrote the postmortem
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cold bare metal hum / I git bisect to old code / packet loss remains
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Notes from October 30, 2006 - Debugging the Big One
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The Scripting Circus: Automating My Life
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vi on a dumb term / a webhook fired into void / no rollback existed
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the old server hums / the terminal remembers me / the pipeline knows
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the blinking cursor / I git bisect to old code / I blamed the sidecar
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the deploy pipeline / we never did fix that bug / I saved the core dump
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the rollback succeeded / I ssh to ghosts of boxes / the merge was final
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the buffer overflowed / I ssh to ghosts of boxes / the deploy receipt
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Debugging Dreamhost with a Perl Script
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the branch was deleted / the queue backed up in silence / the patch is still live
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Life on the LAMP Stack: January 2006
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compile errors clear / the queue backed up in silence / no rollback existed
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Debugging the Red Hat
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the old datacenter / I ssh to ghosts of boxes / the merge was final
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Debugging the Big One
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Why I Decided to Learn Python in 2005
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the build finally passed / I ssh to ghosts of boxes / the deploy receipt
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Debugging Digg: A Day in the Life of a Sysadmin
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the deploy pipeline / a certificate expired there / root remembers all
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Migrating Our LAMP Stack to Xen
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Debugging the Great Server Downtime of 2005
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Debugging a MySQL Bottleneck in the Heart of Our App
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a merge conflict stays / that script still runs somewhere deep / I saved the core dump
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the branch was deleted / the monorepo grew too wide / the merge was final
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January 3, 2005 - The Dawn of New Tools in the Sysadmin's Arsenal
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When Scripting Was Still a Job Title
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compile errors clear / the monorepo grew too wide / config never lies
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ssh key accepted / the monorepo grew too wide / we kept the old flag
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a shell I once loved / I pivoted the table wrong / no rollback existed
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chmod seven seven seven / that script still runs somewhere deep / the pipeline knows
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first commit pushed live / the orchestrator chose wrong / the signal was nine
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the pager went off / the monorepo grew too wide / the wire holds the past
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2004 July 26: When Perls Were Perl and Sysadmins Were Scripting Gods
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stack trace in the log / the monorepo grew too wide / the merge was final
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a segfault at three / the monorepo grew too wide / the deploy receipt
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the deploy pipeline / a midnight pager I still hear / the stack still traces
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A Day in the Life of an Ops Guy in 2004
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a merge conflict stays / the incident taught us the most / root remembers all
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the branch was deleted / the config file knows the past / the service persists
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bash script from ninety / the config file knows the past / the repo holds it all
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Debugging Digg's Database Deadlock Blues
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A Month in the Life of a Sysadmin, October 2003
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The Day We Migrated Away From Apache
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first commit pushed live / the binary was statically linked / I kept the old box
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a diff I once wrote / a midnight pager I still hear / I left a comment
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March 10, 2003 - A Day in the Life of a Sysadmin
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the blinking cursor / we scaled it past what it knew / the merge was final
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Debugging a Nightmarish Nginx Configuration
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Debugging My First Big Production Glitch
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Linux on My Desk: A Developer's Perspective
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Y2K: A Year That Taught Us a Lot About Preparedness
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Reflections on a Post-Bust Summer
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uptime of nine years / the alert fired at three AM / the pipeline knows
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Y2K Lessons and a Faint Glimmer of Hope in Dot-com Land
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Debugging the Y2K Bug in Our Legacy System
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Apache Woes: A Tale of Debugging, Frustration, and Resilience
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first commit pushed live / the segfault taught me the most / the deploy receipt
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Apache Woes: A Tale of Debugging in Y2K's Aftermath
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Y2K Lessons and Linux on the Desktop
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Y2K's Echoes and the Linux Desktop: December 17, 2001
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Y2K Over, Now What? Reflections on the Tech World of 2001
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November 26, 2001: A Day in the Life of Y2K Woes and Apache Bug Bashes
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the rollback succeeded / the proxy swallowed the error / I blamed the sidecar
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Y2K and Late Night Bug Hunts
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On the Bleak Day of 2001
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tail minus f forever / the repo holds my old mistakes / the pod restarted
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Y2K Fallout and the Linux Desktop
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September 10, 2001 - A Day in the Life of a Linux Sysadmin
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strace on the wire / I still remember that IP / the deploy receipt
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the function returned / the repo holds my old mistakes / I kept the bash script
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Dealing with a Flaky Web Server - July 2001
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Debugging DNS Hell on a Saturday Night
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a patch long applied / the repo holds my old mistakes / the cron still fires
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memory leak found / the flag was set in production / no rollback existed
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ssh key accepted / we ran it on bare metal once / the pipeline knows
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Y2K Aftermath: A Day in the Life of an Ops Guy
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Linux on the Desktop: A Mismatched Love Affair
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Debugging the Night Shift: A Y2K Aftermath
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cold bare metal hum / the repo holds my old mistakes / the pod restarted
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December 25, 2000: Y2K Aftermath & the Linux Desktop's Early Days
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Debugging DNS: A Y2K Aftermath Tale
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Y2K Redux: A Night of Worry and Debugging
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a race condition / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / we kept the old flag
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The Year 2000 Postmortem: A Linux Desktop Uprising
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tail minus f forever / a system I built by hand / the pipeline knows
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On Y2K Aftermath and Linux's Steady Climb
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Linux on the Desktop: A Leap of Faith
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The Y2K Aftermath and a Linux Desktop Odyssey
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Waking Up to the New Millennium: A Linux and Apache Adventure
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Y2K Aftermath Blues
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A 4AM Panic in the Y2K Aftermath
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Debugging My Day Job: A Y2K Aftermath Tale
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memory leak found / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / config never lies
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Y2K + 1: A New Year, An Old Problem
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chmod seven seven seven / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / we kept the old flag
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Reflections on the Year 2000: A Linux Desktop Adventurer's Tale