$ grep -r distributed-systems /work /life distributed-systems
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the swap filled at last / a system I built by hand / I typed it by heart
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the floppy disk spun / a system I built by hand / the socket still waits
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AI Copilots in the Real World: A Week of Debugging
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a race condition / I mapped the disk by hand once / we kept the old flag
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the swap filled at last / the version pinned to never / no rollback existed
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the buffer overflowed / the logs held no answers then / it failed gracefully
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the function returned / what the stack trace never showed / I saved the core dump
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a patch long applied / what the stack trace never showed / it was in the logs
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the build finally passed / the logs held no answers then / it failed gracefully
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Dealing with the Overwhelming Cloud Cost Pressure
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Reflections on the AI Arms Race and the Unpredictable Quirks of Hardware
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August Reflections: From M1 GPUs to ChatGPT's Aftermath
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WebAssembly on the Server: Navigating the LLM Infodemic
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net split in the night / the socket never closed right / the log is silent
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March 13, 2023 - AI's Big Bang & My Serverless Odyssey
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the old datacenter / a timeout with no fallback / the patch is still live
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a segfault at three / I typed it and watched it burn / it failed gracefully
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September 12, 2022 - A Month of Turbulence and Reflection
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July 4, 2022 - The Year of Obscure Data Structures and Browser Wars
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strace on the wire / a crontab from two thousand two / it was in the logs
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the function returned / we kept it running on hope / the stack still traces
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first loop I ever wrote / we blamed the cache as always / I wrote the postmortem
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Navigating the Chaos of 2022: From ChatGPT to Cloud Costs
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September 20, 2021: A Tale of Scaling Remote Infrastructure in the Pandemic
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ping with no reply / we kept it running on hope / the stack still traces
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the swap filled at last / the pipeline hung on step three / the log is silent
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sudo bang bang run / we ran out of inodes first / it boots from the past
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uptime of nine years / we ran out of inodes first / it ran in the dark
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a ticket unopened / the abstraction leaked everywhere / the stack still traces
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vi on a dumb term / we ran out of inodes first / it boots from the past
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the deploy pipeline / I git bisect to old code / the stack still traces
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January Reflections on Platform Engineering in a Remote World
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On the Edge: eBPF and My Struggle with Real-Time Debugging
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Kubernetes Conundrums: A Christmas Reflection
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apt-get from the past / the queue backed up in silence / config never lies
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the firewall dropped it / the queue backed up in silence / we kept the old flag
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Kubernetes Chaos: A Week in Debugging
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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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IRC at midnight / the rollout was never finished / the stack still traces
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port eighty was free / the queue backed up in silence / config never lies
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the old server hums / the queue backed up in silence / we kept the old flag
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green text on black glass / I traced it to the library / no rollback existed
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Kubernetes and the New King
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the buffer overflowed / that script still runs somewhere deep / a segfault in time
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Kubernetes Conundrum: A Platform Engineer's Tale
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dial-up tones at night / a certificate expired there / the stack still traces
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a race condition / the binary was statically linked / we kept the old flag
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the monolith ran / the incident taught us the most / the stack still traces
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stack trace in the log / memory I can not free / the secret rotated
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a race condition / the segfault taught me the most / it ran in the dark
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the DNS lied / I traced it to one bad line / it was in the logs
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netstat minus tulpn / we named it temporary once / the stack still traces
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the swap filled at last / we ran it until it melted / config never lies
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strace on the wire / we shipped it on a Friday night / the cron still fires
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March 30, 2015 - The Docker Revolution and My Struggles with a Microservice
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first commit pushed live / I traced it to one bad line / it was in the logs
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Containers Gone Wild: A Docker Diatribe
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stack trace in the log / we named it temporary once / I left a comment
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the swap filled at last / I still remember that IP / it boots from the past
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the function returned / the proxy swallowed the error / the stack still traces
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August 12, 2013 - Dockerizing Legacy Apps
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The Year of Containers: Embracing Docker in a World of Hackers and Explosions
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A Year in Tech: December 10, 2012 Reflections
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the deploy pipeline / the version pinned to never / the stack still traces
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a race condition / the logs held no answers then / I miss that old term
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the swap filled at last / we patched it and moved along / we were on call then
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the swap filled at last / I typed it and watched it burn / disk full on impact
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December 6, 2010 - A Day in the Life of a DevOps Struggler
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first loop I ever wrote / a timeout with no fallback / I left a comment
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memory leak found / a timeout with no fallback / a ghost in the pipe
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April 5, 2010 - A DevOps Riddle Wrapped in a Chef
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On the Front Lines of DevOps with Chef: A Tale of Pain and Triumph
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the swap filled at last / the endpoint broke on staging / a ghost in the pipe
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the buffer overflowed / we kept it running on hope / the key still exists
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apt-get from the past / we blamed the cache as always / it boots from the past
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the firewall dropped it / we blamed the cache as always / it ran in the dark
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the config was wrong / the endpoint broke on staging / the stack still traces
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March 23, 2009 - The Day the Cloud Came Knocking
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port eighty was free / we blamed the cache as always / it boots from the past
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the old server hums / we blamed the cache as always / it ran in the dark
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dial-up tones at night / the endpoint broke on staging / the stack still traces
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green text on black glass / the thread pool was too shallow / config never lies
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October 6, 2008 - GitHub's Launch and the Cloud Wars
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the buffer overflowed / we documented nothing then / the signal was nine
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a merge conflict stays / we ran out of inodes first / the wire holds the past
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first loop I ever wrote / we ran out of inodes first / the merge was final
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When Your Server Goes Down in a Startup Sprint
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the monolith ran / we documented nothing then / the stack still traces
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memory leak found / we ran out of inodes first / config never lies
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chmod seven seven seven / we ran out of inodes first / we kept the old flag
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December 17, 2007: The Year the Cloud Whispered to Me
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Debugging a Mysterious Hang in Our Production Service
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netstat minus tulpn / the heartbeat skipped at cutover / the stack still traces
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the swap filled at last / the firewall rule was too strict / config never lies
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the pager went off / the heartbeat skipped at cutover / the stack still traces
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Web 2.0 Hype Meets Real Work: A Month in Tech
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A Day in the Life of a LAMP Sysadmin (July 24, 2006)
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ps aux at midnight / I traced it to the library / a ghost in the pipe
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When Perl Ruled The World
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the branch was deleted / the queue backed up in silence / the patch is still live
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strace on the wire / we never did fix that bug / it was in the logs
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the function returned / I traced it to the library / the stack still traces
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Debugging Digg's Downfall: A Tale of Misplaced Trust
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a patch long applied / I traced it to the library / the signal was nine
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ssh key accepted / the queue backed up in silence / the build artifact
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Why We Can't All Just Get Along with Python
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the pager went off / the queue backed up in silence / the daemon still hums
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August 15, 2005 - A Day in the Life of a DevOps Noob
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ping with no reply / I traced it to the library / the stack still traces
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Day 152: A Week Without Sleep
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the swap filled at last / a port scan echoes back now / the log is silent
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strace on the wire / a certificate expired there / the key still exists
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Debugging a Nightmare with Perl: A Tale of Many Files
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yaml indent wrong / I traced it to one bad line / the pod restarted
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Reflections on a Post-Dot-Com Christmas
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Y2K Echoes in 2002: An Infrastructure Manager's Perspective
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Linux on My Desk: A Developer's Perspective
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Y2K Was Over, But 2002 Still Had Its Quirks
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compile errors clear / I traced it to one bad line / the log is silent
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Y2K's Echoes and the Linux Desktop Invasion
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Linux on the Desktop: A Love-Hate Relationship
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Y2K Echoes in 2001: A Month of Debugging the Apache Daemon
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The Year 2000 Postmortem: A Linux Desktop Uprising
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Debugging Linux Kernels: A 2000s Tale