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Debugging the Copilot Meltdown
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Copilot’s Copilot: My AI Experience as a Platform Engineer
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March 9, 2026 - Copilots, Context, and the Cost of Convenience
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Debugging the Reality of AI Copilots in Production
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Reflections on February 2026 - AI Copilots and the Boring K8s
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ps aux at midnight / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / the log is silent
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a race condition / I watched the memory climb slow / the build artifact
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netstat minus tulpn / I rm minus rf once / I saved the core dump
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tail minus f forever / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / the pod restarted
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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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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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sudo bang bang run / old servers never forget / disk full on impact
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AI Copilots in the Real World: A Few Lessons from the Front Lines
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man page at two AM / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / I wrote the postmortem
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Debugging AI Copilots: A Journey into eBPF and Wasm Convergence
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compile errors clear / I rm minus rf once / we were on call then
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a patch long applied / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / the cron still fires
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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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AI Copilots in the Real World: A Week of Debugging
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The AI Copilot Dilemma
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On the Edge of AI Copilot Nirvana: Realities and Pitfalls
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Realizing AI Copilots in My Codebase
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tab complete recalled / a system I built by hand / I typed it by heart
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AI Copilot Blues
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Reflections on a World Where AI Is Everywhere
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cron job I forgot / a system I built by hand / I pushed and forgot
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From Claude to Kubernetes: Navigating AI Copilots in a Multi-Cloud World
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The Day Claude 3.7 Took Over My Monitor
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root prompt long ago / I watched the memory climb slow / the patch is still live
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Debugging the AI Christmas Miracle
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nmap on the lan / the version pinned to never / I kept the old box
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the deploy pipeline / the service mesh confused us all / I strace the memory
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ps aux at midnight / what the stack trace never showed / we were on call then
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November 4, 2024: A Mosaic of Realities
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netstat minus tulpn / we patched it and moved along / uptime was the proof
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BIOS beep sequence / the service mesh confused us all / the service persists
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Debugging the LLM Apocalypse: A Tale of Two Infrastructure Hells
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apt-get from the past / a grep through ten years of logs / the log is silent
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packet loss at dawn / the version pinned to never / the build artifact
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strace on the wire / the service mesh confused us all / the repo holds it all
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Serverless Woes: Why Cloud Functions Can Be a Double-Edged Sword
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the firewall dropped it / a grep through ten years of logs / the pod restarted
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Debugging a Distributed Systems Nightmare: A Day in the Life
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July 8, 2024 - A Tale of Two Platforms
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man page at two AM / what the stack trace never showed / the shell recalls it
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a ticket unopened / a grep through ten years of logs / I kept the bash script
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compile errors clear / we patched it and moved along / disk full on impact
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telnet to nowhere / the service mesh confused us all / it ran in the dark
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Notes from the Serverless Frontier
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Debugging DevOps with DORA Metrics and LLMs: A Personal Journey
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make install complete / the version pinned to never / I kept the old box
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grep through the dark log / the service mesh confused us all / I strace the memory
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a shell I once loved / what the stack trace never showed / we were on call then
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March 11, 2024: A Day in the Life of a Platform Engineer Amidst the AI Tsunami
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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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the build finally passed / the logs held no answers then / it failed gracefully
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port eighty was free / a grep through ten years of logs / the log is silent
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cron job I forgot / the version pinned to never / the build artifact
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Debugging the LLM Layer Cake
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Debugging the Gemini AI Hype: Real Work in a Wild Era
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Reflections on December 4, 2023: A Day in the Life of a Platform Engineer
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November 27, 2023 - A Day in the Life of a Platform Engineer Amidst Industry Turmoil
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green text on black glass / the service mesh confused us all / it boots from the past
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the blinking cursor / what the stack trace never showed / the shell recalls it
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Debugging the DevOps Dilemma: When LLMs Start to Code
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the deploy pipeline / the socket never closed right / I kept the bash script
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ps aux at midnight / the deploy went sideways fast / disk full on impact
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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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a merge conflict stays / I parsed the pcap for hours / I strace the memory
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July 24, 2023 - AI Infrastructure Blues
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July 3, 2023: A Muddled Morning with Llama 2 and a Dash of Zenbleed
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sudo bang bang run / a timeout with no fallback / no rollback existed
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June 12, 2023: A Day in the Life of a Platform Engineer
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WebAssembly on the Server: Navigating the LLM Infodemic
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man page at two AM / the deploy went sideways fast / the secret rotated
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May 1, 2023 - The Moat Hasn't Moved, But the Battle Lines Are Clear
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compile errors clear / I typed it and watched it burn / I typed it by heart
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the daemon restarted / the cluster held until dawn / the shell recalls it
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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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grep through the dark log / the socket never closed right / I kept the bash script
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A Year in Review: When the Platform Was the Problem
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chmod seven seven seven / I parsed the pcap for hours / it ran in the dark
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A Dev’s Holiday Reflections on WebAssembly & Serverless
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the build finally passed / a timeout with no fallback / I kept the old box
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IRC at midnight / I parsed the pcap for hours / I strace the memory
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cron job I forgot / the namespace collision held / we kept the old flag
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the kernel panicked / the socket never closed right / the cron still fires
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vi on a dumb term / a timeout with no fallback / no rollback existed
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root prompt long ago / I parsed the pcap for hours / the service persists
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the blinking cursor / the deploy went sideways fast / the secret rotated
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Debugging Cloud Costs with DORA Metrics
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nmap on the lan / the thread pool was too shallow / the repo holds it all
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August 2022: A Month of Infrastructure Fights and FinOps Challenges
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ps aux at midnight / we kept it running on hope / a ghost in the pipe
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the rollback succeeded / we merged without a review / the merge was final
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netstat minus tulpn / the endpoint broke on staging / the daemon still hums
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A Month in Review: When Shutdowns Are on the Menu
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tail minus f forever / we kept it running on hope / the container exited
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the buffer overflowed / we merged without a review / the deploy receipt
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June 2022 Reflections: AI Infrastructure Overload, Platform Engineering Norm, and FinOps Reality
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apt-get from the past / I wrote it and forgot why / disk full on impact
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strace on the wire / a crontab from two thousand two / it was in the logs
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sudo bang bang run / we merged without a review / config never lies
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April 4, 2022 - A Week in the Life of a Platform Engineer
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When FinOps Met My Wallet
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Notes from a March 21st, 2022 Journal Entry
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March 14, 2022: A Day in the Life of an Overwhelmed Engineer
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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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the floppy disk spun / the thread pool was too shallow / the service persists
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telnet to nowhere / a crontab from two thousand two / the pipeline knows
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Debugging My First Web3 App
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ssh key accepted / the endpoint broke on staging / the build artifact
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue and the Long Tail of Tech Debt
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grep through the dark log / a crontab from two thousand two / I saved the core dump
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Backstage in the Cloud: A Year of Platform Engineering
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the old datacenter / we merged without a review / the merge was final
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chmod seven seven seven / we blamed the cache as always / the pod restarted
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When DevOps Meets Developer Burnout: A Personal Reflection
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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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IRC at midnight / we blamed the cache as always / I kept the bash script
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue and the Search for Simplicity
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the kernel panicked / a crontab from two thousand two / it was in the logs
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vi on a dumb term / we merged without a review / config never lies
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root prompt long ago / we blamed the cache as always / I wrote the postmortem
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue: A Manager's Perspective
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green text on black glass / a crontab from two thousand two / we were on call then
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On the Edge with eBPF: A Reality Check
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nmap on the lan / the pipeline hung on step three / the cron still fires
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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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Reflections on the Early Days of SRE in a Remote-First World
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue: My Fight Against Configuration Hell
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Backstage at Backstage: Navigating the Internal Developer Portal
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apt-get from the past / the abstraction leaked everywhere / a ghost in the pipe
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strace on the wire / a shell history of years / a segfault in time
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sudo bang bang run / we ran out of inodes first / it boots from the past
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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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January 2021: A Month of Infra Messes and Microservices Mayhem
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue Hits Home
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December 21, 2020: A Year of Remote Chaos and Platform Engineering
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telnet to nowhere / a shell history of years / I miss that old term
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the monolith ran / we ran out of inodes first / I strace the memory
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Debugging Kubernetes Complexity: A Real-Life Example
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A Month of Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue and eBPF Excitement
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grep through the dark log / a shell history of years / uptime was the proof
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a shell I once loved / we documented nothing then / no rollback existed
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue and the Art of Keeping it Simple
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chmod seven seven seven / I diff the past against now / the pipeline knows
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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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A Remote Work Day in August 2020
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the build finally passed / we ran out of inodes first / the repo holds it all
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cron job I forgot / the pipeline hung on step three / the pod restarted
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the kernel panicked / a shell history of years / a segfault in time
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vi on a dumb term / we ran out of inodes first / it boots from the past
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root prompt long ago / I diff the past against now / the shell recalls it
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue: A Developer's Perspective
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green text on black glass / a shell history of years / disk full on impact
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the blinking cursor / we documented nothing then / the patch is still live
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nmap on the lan / the database was the truth / it was in the logs
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ps aux at midnight / a webhook fired into void / config never lies
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue Meets Remote Work
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netstat minus tulpn / the firewall rule was too strict / I strace the memory
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tail minus f forever / a webhook fired into void / we kept the old flag
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the buffer overflowed / I read the RFC again / the cron still fires
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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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the branch was deleted / the firewall rule was too strict / the service persists
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue: A Developer's Perspective
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Debugging Kubernetes in Production: A Love/Hate Story
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first loop I ever wrote / the terminal remembers me / the secret rotated
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the firewall dropped it / the heartbeat skipped at cutover / the build artifact
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bash script from ninety / the firewall rule was too strict / the repo holds it all
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man page at two AM / a webhook fired into void / the merge was final
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the prod deploy froze / the terminal remembers me / a segfault in time
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compile errors clear / the firewall rule was too strict / it boots from the past
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the floppy disk spun / the database was the truth / the shell recalls it
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the monolith ran / I read the RFC again / I kept the bash script
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Reflections on the Era of Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue: A Real-World Perspective
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue: A Reality Check
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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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chmod seven seven seven / the terminal remembers me / I miss that old term
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue? It's More Than Just a Feeling
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tab complete recalled / the database was the truth / we were on call then
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the build finally passed / I read the RFC again / the cron still fires
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Debugging Myself: A Tale of Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue
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stack trace in the log / the firewall rule was too strict / the service persists
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cron job I forgot / the database was the truth / the pipeline knows
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vi on a dumb term / I read the RFC again / the log is silent
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root prompt long ago / the terminal remembers me / the secret rotated
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue and My Journey with ArgoCD
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the blinking cursor / a webhook fired into void / the merge was final
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nmap on the lan / we never did fix that bug / a segfault in time
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February 25, 2019 - SRE's Dilemma: Scaling Remote Infra in a Pandemic
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the rollback succeeded / we named the server badly then / the shell recalls it
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue: A Developer’s Perspective
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January 7, 2019 - A Year of Complexity and Clarity
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apt-get from the past / the queue backed up in silence / config never lies
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Kubernetes Wins, But What About Our Legacy Systems?
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the function returned / I ssh to ghosts of boxes / I strace the memory
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sudo bang bang run / we named the server badly then / we were on call then
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Kubernetes Love-In: A Platform Engineer's Perspective
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Kubernetes Wars: A Personal Battle
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compile errors clear / the interrupt handler failed / the log is silent
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telnet to nowhere / I traced it to the library / the build artifact
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ssh key accepted / the interrupt handler failed / the pod restarted
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make install complete / we never did fix that bug / a segfault in time
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grep through the dark log / I traced it to the library / the daemon still hums
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a shell I once loved / I ssh to ghosts of boxes / it boots from the past
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the old datacenter / we named the server badly then / the shell recalls it
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chmod seven seven seven / the rollout was never finished / the container exited
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the pager went off / the interrupt handler failed / I kept the bash script
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tab complete recalled / we never did fix that bug / disk full on impact
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the build finally passed / we named the server badly then / it was in the logs
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cron job I forgot / we never did fix that bug / I miss that old term
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ping with no reply / I ssh to ghosts of boxes / I strace the memory
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vi on a dumb term / we named the server badly then / we were on call then
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Kubernetes Conquest and the Great Ops Debate
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a segfault at three / the interrupt handler failed / the cron still fires
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the blinking cursor / I ssh to ghosts of boxes / the service persists
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nmap on the lan / a certificate expired there / the signal was nine
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ps aux at midnight / a kernel I compiled myself / the log is silent
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a race condition / the orchestrator chose wrong / the build artifact
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netstat minus tulpn / a port scan echoes back now / I saved the core dump
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Kubernetes Wars: A Battle I’ve Fought—and Lost
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apt-get from the past / the monorepo grew too wide / it boots from the past
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the branch was deleted / a port scan echoes back now / the shell recalls it
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strace on the wire / I pivoted the table wrong / the deploy receipt
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Kubernetes on a Budget: Fighting with the Helm
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sudo bang bang run / that script still runs somewhere deep / disk full on impact
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Kubernetes Woes: A Day in the Life of an Overworked Platform Engineer
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August 2017 Reflections: Kubernetes and the Chaos of Platform Engineering
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Kubernetes and Beyond: A Summer of Trials
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Kubernetes Conundrum: When Your Apps Start Talking Back
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a patch long applied / a kernel I compiled myself / the cron still fires
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Kubernetes Wars: A Battle of the Beast
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Kubernetes Wars: When Your Team’s Chaos Isn’t Just a Bug
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Kubernetes and the Kafka Moment
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grep through the dark log / I pivoted the table wrong / the wire holds the past
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Kubernetes Chaos: A Tale of Debugging and Resilience
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Kubernetes Hell & the Joy of Helm
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tab complete recalled / a certificate expired there / a ghost in the pipe
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Kubernetes' Reign: A Day in the Life of an Old School Platform Engineer
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Kubernetes Wars and the Quest for Stability
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stack trace in the log / a port scan echoes back now / the shell recalls it
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cron job I forgot / a certificate expired there / the container exited
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ping with no reply / a kernel I compiled myself / I kept the bash script
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Kubernetes: A Year of Learning and Growing
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root prompt long ago / the orchestrator chose wrong / the patch is still live
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December 5, 2016 - When Kubernetes Was Just a Thing
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nmap on the lan / a midnight pager I still hear / I kept the old box
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the deploy pipeline / we scaled it past what it knew / I strace the memory
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November 7, 2016 - Kubernetes Debacle and the Dawn of Platform Engineering
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the DNS lied / the config file knows the past / the cron still fires
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Kubernetes Growing Pains: A Real-Time Case Study
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BIOS beep sequence / we scaled it past what it knew / the service persists
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September 19, 2016 - Kubernetes and the Struggle with Scaling
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apt-get from the past / the config file knows the past / the log is silent
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packet loss at dawn / a midnight pager I still hear / the build artifact
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strace on the wire / we scaled it past what it knew / the repo holds it all
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sudo bang bang run / the incident taught us the most / a ghost in the pipe
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bash script from ninety / memory I can not free / a segfault in time
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Kubernetes Fails, But We Learn
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a ticket unopened / the config file knows the past / I kept the bash script
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compile errors clear / memory I can not free / disk full on impact
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Kubernetes vs. Mesos: A Day in the Life
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Kubernetes, NPM Left-Pad, and the Year I Learned Humility
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grep through the dark log / we scaled it past what it knew / I strace the memory
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a shell I once loved / the network split in the night / we were on call then
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chmod seven seven seven / the binary was statically linked / we kept the old flag
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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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the build finally passed / the incident taught us the most / the signal was nine
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December 14, 2015: A Tale of Containers, Crashes, and Code
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vi on a dumb term / the incident taught us the most / a ghost in the pipe
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root prompt long ago / the binary was statically linked / the merge was final
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the blinking cursor / the network split in the night / the shell recalls it
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nmap on the lan / we ran it until it melted / the deploy receipt
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Container Wars: A Docker Developer's Perspective
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ps aux at midnight / the alert fired at three AM / disk full on impact
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netstat minus tulpn / we named it temporary once / the stack still traces
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tail minus f forever / the alert fired at three AM / I miss that old term
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a merge conflict stays / the segfault taught me the most / I strace the memory
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apt-get from the past / I traced it to one bad line / we were on call then
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strace on the wire / we shipped it on a Friday night / the cron still fires
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A Docker Day in the Life: When Containers Were Still New
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Docker Fever in 2015
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Kubernetes and the Docker Dilemma
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man page at two AM / the alert fired at three AM / the secret rotated
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Managing Microservices with a Dash of Reality
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compile errors clear / we named it temporary once / a ghost in the pipe
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February 9, 2015 – When Everything Feels Like a Mess
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ssh key accepted / we named it temporary once / the container exited
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make install complete / we ran it until it melted / the deploy receipt
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A Day in the Life of a Dockerized DevOps Jungle
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a shell I once loved / the alert fired at three AM / disk full on impact
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chmod seven seven seven / the segfault taught me the most / it ran in the dark
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December 8, 2014 - A Day in the Life of a DevOps Engineer
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the build finally passed / the secret was in the env / I kept the old box
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Kubernetes: A New King in Town
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cron job I forgot / we ran it until it melted / we kept the old flag
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the kernel panicked / we shipped it on a Friday night / the cron still fires
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Containers, Microservices, and a Lesson in Overcomplication
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Kubernetes, Coffee, and a Late Night with CoreOS
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Container Hell: A Real-world Kubernetes Dilemma
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yaml indent wrong / we containerized the past / the build artifact
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nmap on the lan / I still remember that IP / the repo holds it all
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ps aux at midnight / the proxy swallowed the error / a ghost in the pipe
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netstat minus tulpn / we containerized the past / the daemon still hums
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BIOS beep sequence / the repo holds my old mistakes / the shell recalls it
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The Docker Dilemma: A Tale of Two Containers
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a merge conflict stays / the load average climbed alone / I kept the bash script
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apt-get from the past / we ran it on bare metal once / disk full on impact
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strace on the wire / the repo holds my old mistakes / it was in the logs
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sudo bang bang run / the flag was set in production / config never lies
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March 17, 2014 - Docker Fever and the 12-Factor App
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the config was wrong / I still remember that IP / I strace the memory
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man page at two AM / the proxy swallowed the error / I left a comment
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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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the floppy disk spun / I still remember that IP / the service persists
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On a Cold December Day in 2013: The Dawn of Containerization
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make install complete / I still remember that IP / the repo holds it all
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grep through the dark log / the repo holds my old mistakes / I saved the core dump
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a shell I once loved / the proxy swallowed the error / a ghost in the pipe
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chmod seven seven seven / the load average climbed alone / the pod restarted
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tab complete recalled / I still remember that IP / it boots from the past
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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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IRC at midnight / the load average climbed alone / I kept the bash script
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August 26, 2013: Docker's Arrival and the Container Conundrum
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vi on a dumb term / the flag was set in production / config never lies
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root prompt long ago / the load average climbed alone / I wrote the postmortem
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dial-up tones at night / I still remember that IP / I strace the memory
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Reflections on June 24, 2013: A Day in the Life of an Ops Guy
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Container Chaos: My First Encounter with Docker
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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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Docker Containers: A New Way to Think About Deployment
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tail minus f forever / the health check always lied / the build artifact
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March 18, 2013 - Docker's World and the Quest for a Better DevOps Tool
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strace on the wire / a system I built by hand / a segfault in time
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sudo bang bang run / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / it boots from the past
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first loop I ever wrote / old servers never forget / the shell recalls it
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bash script from ninety / a rollback took the data too / the deploy receipt
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the config was wrong / I rm minus rf once / I kept the bash script
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man page at two AM / the health check always lied / the patch is still live
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compile errors clear / a rollback took the data too / config never lies
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the monolith ran / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / I strace the memory
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DevOps Turmoil: Chef vs Puppet in the Wild West of Configuration Management
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make install complete / I rm minus rf once / the cron still fires
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October 1, 2012 - A Day in the Life of a Platform Engineer
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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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tab complete recalled / I rm minus rf once / the log is silent
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cold bare metal hum / the health check always lied / the build artifact
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the build finally passed / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / the repo holds it all
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cron job I forgot / I rm minus rf once / the pod restarted
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vi on a dumb term / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / it boots from the past
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June 4, 2012: Chaos Reigns (or at Least, It Did)
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dial-up tones at night / I rm minus rf once / I kept the bash script
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the blinking cursor / the health check always lied / the patch is still live
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yaml indent wrong / a grep through ten years of logs / it ran in the dark
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nmap on the lan / we patched it and moved along / it was in the logs
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Config Management Wars: A Chef or Puppet Problem?
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Debugging Heroku: A Tale of Unexpected Disruption
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tail minus f forever / the service mesh confused us all / we kept the old flag
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DevOps Warzone: When Chef Fought Back
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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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strace on the wire / the version pinned to never / the signal was nine
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the function returned / the service mesh confused us all / the wire holds the past
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December 19, 2011: SOPA Fuss and Chef Wars
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December 5, 2011 - A Day in the Life of Ops Before DevOps
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The Chef vs. Puppet Conundrum: A Personal Tale of DevOps Tools
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November 7, 2011: The Chaos of Change
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The Year 2011 Was a Mess, But I Learned to Love DevOps
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the floppy disk spun / we patched it and moved along / the shell recalls it
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a patch long applied / the service mesh confused us all / the deploy receipt
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the monolith ran / what the stack trace never showed / I kept the bash script
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ssh key accepted / a grep through ten years of logs / it ran in the dark
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make install complete / we patched it and moved along / it was in the logs
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grep through the dark log / the version pinned to never / the stack still traces
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a shell I once loved / the service mesh confused us all / config never lies
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Puppet vs. Chef: The Great Config Management War of 2011
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Config Management Wars and My First DevOps Dinner
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tab complete recalled / we patched it and moved along / we were on call then
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From DevOps to Chaos: A Summer 2011 Blog Entry
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The Chaos That Was June 6, 2011
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stack trace in the log / a grep through ten years of logs / the service persists
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On a Friday in May 2011: When the Web Kernel Blew My Mind
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April 25, 2011 - DevOps Wars and the Chaos of Change
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April 2011: A Tale of Troubleshooting and DevOps
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root prompt long ago / the logs held no answers then / the secret rotated
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April 4, 2011 - A Day in the Life of a New Manager
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a segfault at three / a grep through ten years of logs / the repo holds it all
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the blinking cursor / the service mesh confused us all / the merge was final
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nmap on the lan / I typed it and watched it burn / a segfault in time
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ps aux at midnight / the socket never closed right / it boots from the past
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the rollback succeeded / the deploy went sideways fast / the shell recalls it
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December's Debug Fiasco and the DevOps Buzz
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tail minus f forever / the socket never closed right / it ran in the dark
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DevOps Drama and the Chaos of Ops
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strace on the wire / the namespace collision held / I kept the old box
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the function returned / the socket never closed right / I strace the memory
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2010-10-25: The Chaos of Continuous Delivery
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Config Management Wars: A Chef or Puppet Decision
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man page at two AM / the socket never closed right / the service persists
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Chef vs Puppet: My Battle in the Configuration Management Wars
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telnet to nowhere / the namespace collision held / the build artifact
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ssh key accepted / the cluster held until dawn / the pod restarted
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make install complete / I typed it and watched it burn / a segfault in time
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Config Management Wars: A Tale of Puppet vs. Chef
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a shell I once loved / the socket never closed right / it boots from the past
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the old datacenter / the deploy went sideways fast / the shell recalls it
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chmod seven seven seven / a timeout with no fallback / the container exited
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the pager went off / the cluster held until dawn / I kept the bash script
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tab complete recalled / I typed it and watched it burn / disk full on impact
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Notes from a Newbie in the DevOps Boom
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March Madness: DevOps, NoSQL, and the Chaos of a New Era
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March 1, 2010 - A Day in the Life of a DevOps Engineer
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vi on a dumb term / the deploy went sideways fast / we were on call then
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On the Front Lines of DevOps with Chef: A Tale of Pain and Triumph
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a segfault at three / the cluster held until dawn / the cron still fires
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the blinking cursor / the socket never closed right / the service persists
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nmap on the lan / the endpoint broke on staging / the signal was nine
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A Decade of Debates: Cloud vs. Colo, and the Dawn of Git
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Why I Left My First Big Company Job
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netstat minus tulpn / I wrote it and forgot why / I saved the core dump
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Back to Reality After the Great Crash
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a merge conflict stays / we merged without a review / the daemon still hums
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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 branch was deleted / I wrote it and forgot why / the shell recalls it
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Dealing with the Great Recession in Tech
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the function returned / a crontab from two thousand two / I kept the bash script
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sudo bang bang run / we kept it running on hope / the port is still open
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first loop I ever wrote / we merged without a review / the patch is still live
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bash script from ninety / I wrote it and forgot why / it was in the logs
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man page at two AM / a crontab from two thousand two / I wrote the postmortem
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the prod deploy froze / we merged without a review / I kept the old box
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Debugging the Cloud: A June 2009 Tale
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compile errors clear / I wrote it and forgot why / we were on call then
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a patch long applied / a crontab from two thousand two / the cron still fires
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memory leak found / we merged without a review / no rollback existed
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Debugging in the Cloud: A Day in the Life of 2009
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ssh key accepted / I wrote it and forgot why / the pipeline knows
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Reflections on April 2009: When Git Was the New Kid on the Block
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grep through the dark log / the thread pool was too shallow / the wire holds the past
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a shell I once loved / a crontab from two thousand two / the log is silent
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chmod seven seven seven / we merged without a review / the build artifact
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tab complete recalled / the endpoint broke on staging / a ghost in the pipe
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cold bare metal hum / a crontab from two thousand two / the pod restarted
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the build finally passed / we kept it running on hope / the key still exists
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IRC at midnight / we merged without a review / the daemon still hums
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stack trace in the log / I wrote it and forgot why / the shell recalls it
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cron job I forgot / the endpoint broke on staging / the container exited
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ping with no reply / a crontab from two thousand two / I kept the bash script
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Decoding 2008: When GitHub Launched and I Was Just Starting Out
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root prompt long ago / we merged without a review / the patch is still live
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the blinking cursor / a crontab from two thousand two / I wrote the postmortem
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nmap on the lan / the index was never rebuilt / I kept the old box
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the deploy pipeline / the pipeline hung on step three / I strace the memory
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ps aux at midnight / a shell history of years / we were on call then
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When the iPhone Was Still a Hot New Thing
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September 22, 2008 - A Day in the Life of an Infrastructure Monkey
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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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apt-get from the past / I diff the past against now / the log is silent
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Debugging Production with Hadoop
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strace on the wire / the pipeline hung on step three / the repo holds it all
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the function returned / a shell history of years / I saved the core dump
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sudo bang bang run / we documented nothing then / a ghost in the pipe
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bash script from ninety / the abstraction leaked everywhere / the key still exists
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Why I Decided Against the iPhone in 2008
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The Great Cloud Migration: A Developer's Perspective
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compile errors clear / the abstraction leaked everywhere / the port is still open
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a patch long applied / a shell history of years / it was in the logs
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March 10, 2008 - A Week of Twists and Turns
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make install complete / the index was never rebuilt / I kept the old box
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grep through the dark log / the pipeline hung on step three / I strace the memory
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a shell I once loved / a shell history of years / we were on call then
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chmod seven seven seven / we ran out of inodes first / we kept the old flag
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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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the build finally passed / we documented nothing then / the signal was nine
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On The Brink: A November 2007 Software Developer's Perspective
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ping with no reply / a shell history of years / I saved the core dump
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vi on a dumb term / we documented nothing then / a ghost in the pipe
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root prompt long ago / we ran out of inodes first / the merge was final
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Debugging the DevOps Dream: A 2007 Memoir
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nmap on the lan / the firewall rule was too strict / the deploy receipt
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The Great Migration: From Colo to Cloud
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How We Fought the AWS Outage of '07
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the DNS lied / the terminal remembers me / it was in the logs
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netstat minus tulpn / the heartbeat skipped at cutover / the stack still traces
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tail minus f forever / I git bisect to old code / packet loss remains
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a merge conflict stays / I read the RFC again / I strace the memory
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apt-get from the past / the terminal remembers me / we were on call then
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strace on the wire / the database was the truth / the cron still fires
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sudo bang bang run / a webhook fired into void / no rollback existed
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Debugging Disaster: My Week with Hadoop
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the firewall dropped it / the terminal remembers me / the pipeline knows
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bash script from ninety / the heartbeat skipped at cutover / the signal was nine
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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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a ticket unopened / the terminal remembers me / I saved the core dump
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compile errors clear / the heartbeat skipped at cutover / a ghost in the pipe
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Reflections on the Winter of 2007: When Cloud Was Still a New Kid on the Block
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ssh key accepted / the heartbeat skipped at cutover / the container exited
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Debugging the Monday Blues with a New Tool
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grep through the dark log / the database was the truth / I kept the bash script
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Debugging the Holiday Rush: A Day in the Life of a Newfangled Sysadmin
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chmod seven seven seven / I read the RFC again / it ran in the dark
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The Year of Downtime and Digg
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tab complete recalled / the firewall rule was too strict / config never lies
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Notes from October 30, 2006 - Debugging the Big One
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IRC at midnight / I read the RFC again / I strace the memory
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The Dawn of a New Era in Ops: A Web 2.0 Adventure
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Notes from a Week in October 2006
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the kernel panicked / the database was the truth / the cron still fires
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vi on a dumb term / a webhook fired into void / no rollback existed
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root prompt long ago / I read the RFC again / the service persists
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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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A Day in the Life of a LAMP Sysadmin (July 24, 2006)
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Debugging with Perl: A Summer of Sweat and Scripting
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ps aux at midnight / I traced it to the library / a ghost in the pipe
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netstat minus tulpn / the queue backed up in silence / the daemon still hums
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A Day in the Life of a Sysadmin in 2006
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tail minus f forever / I traced it to the library / the container exited
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Debugging Dreamhost with a Perl Script
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apt-get from the past / the rollout was never finished / the port is still open
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strace on the wire / we never did fix that bug / it was in the logs
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sudo bang bang run / I ssh to ghosts of boxes / config never lies
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Debugging the Great MySQL Meltdown
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Marching into 2006 with Python and Perl
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Debugging Digg's Downfall: A Tale of Misplaced Trust
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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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the floppy disk spun / the interrupt handler failed / the service persists
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ssh key accepted / the queue backed up in silence / the build artifact
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make install complete / the interrupt handler failed / the repo holds it all
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Debugging the Big Red Button
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Why We Can't All Just Get Along with Python
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chmod seven seven seven / we named the server badly then / the pod restarted
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tab complete recalled / the interrupt handler failed / it boots from the past
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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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A Late Summer Downturn: Debugging Apache and Learning Python
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cron job I forgot / the interrupt handler failed / it ran in the dark
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Learning to Love Perl: A LAMP Stack Journey
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root prompt long ago / we named the server badly then / I wrote the postmortem
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Debugging a Python Nightmare
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Day 152: A Week Without Sleep
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nmap on the lan / a port scan echoes back now / the cron still fires
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Migrating Our LAMP Stack to Xen
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Debugging the "Weird Error" That Wouldn't Go Away
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Debugging a MySQL Bottleneck in the Heart of Our App
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Debugging the Monday Blues: A Tale of 3 AM Hangovers
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the buffer overflowed / a kernel I compiled myself / the repo holds it all
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apt-get from the past / the orchestrator chose wrong / a ghost in the pipe
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strace on the wire / a certificate expired there / the key still exists
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sudo bang bang run / a kernel I compiled myself / it boots from the past
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first loop I ever wrote / that script still runs somewhere deep / the shell recalls it
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January 3, 2005 - The Dawn of New Tools in the Sysadmin's Arsenal
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the config was wrong / a port scan echoes back now / I kept the bash script
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man page at two AM / I pivoted the table wrong / the patch is still live
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Debugging Daylight Savings Time in 2004
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compile errors clear / the monorepo grew too wide / config never lies
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the monolith ran / a kernel I compiled myself / I strace the memory
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ssh key accepted / the monorepo grew too wide / we kept the old flag
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make install complete / a port scan echoes back now / the cron still fires
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grep through the dark log / a certificate expired there / root remembers all
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a shell I once loved / I pivoted the table wrong / no rollback existed
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A Summer of Bugs and Breakthroughs
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chmod seven seven seven / that script still runs somewhere deep / the pipeline knows
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tab complete recalled / a port scan echoes back now / the log is silent
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2004: Year of the Script Kiddie?
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the build finally passed / a kernel I compiled myself / the repo holds it all
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Why Perl Still Rocks in 2004
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A 20/20 Vision of May 24, 2004
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Debugging Xen in Production
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Debugging the Dream: A Night With MySQL
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April Fools' Day Debugging: A LAMP Tale
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nmap on the lan / memory I can not free / it was in the logs
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ps aux at midnight / we scaled it past what it knew / config never lies
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Debugging the Dawn of Open Source
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tail minus f forever / we scaled it past what it knew / we kept the old flag
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Debugging the Great Server Swap
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2004 Redux: When We Were Still Scripting in Perl
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the branch was deleted / the config file knows the past / the service persists
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strace on the wire / a midnight pager I still hear / the signal was nine
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sudo bang bang run / the network split in the night / the log is silent
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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: September 2003
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the floppy disk spun / memory I can not free / the shell recalls it
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Life in the LAMP Jungle
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August 4, 2003: A Day in the Life of a Sysadmin
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make install complete / memory I can not free / it was in the logs
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The Year of My First Script
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a shell I once loved / we scaled it past what it knew / config never lies
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The Perl Pitfalls of Summer 2003
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the pager went off / the config file knows the past / I strace the memory
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A Month in the Life of a Sysadmin: June 2003
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Debugging the Great Mysql Lockout
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The Day My Perl Script Went Nuclear
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cron job I forgot / memory I can not free / the pipeline knows
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2003: A Year of Web 2.0 Beginnings and Learning the Hard Way
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Debugging the Day Away with Apache
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the old server hums / the binary was statically linked / the build artifact
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the blinking cursor / we scaled it past what it knew / the merge was final
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nmap on the lan / we named it temporary once / the key still exists
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ps aux at midnight / we shipped it on a Friday night / it boots from the past
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Debugging My First Big Production Glitch
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Reflections on a Post-Dot-Com Christmas
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**The Long Wait for IPv6**
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Y2K Echoes and Red Hat's Promise
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On the Brink: Debugging a DNS Glitch That Nearly Crashed Our Site
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the function returned / we shipped it on a Friday night / I strace the memory
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sudo bang bang run / the alert fired at three AM / we were on call then
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Y2K Was Over, But 2002 Still Had Its Quirks
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The Linux Desktop's Long Wait
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compile errors clear / I traced it to one bad line / the log is silent
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telnet to nowhere / we ran it until it melted / the build artifact
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The Linux Desktop: A Skeptical Trial
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Y2K + 1: Reflections on Surviving the Bureaucratic Maze
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On the Brink: Linux Desktops and the Y2K Aftermath
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IPv6 Is a Mess, But We're Gonna Ship It Anyway
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the old datacenter / the alert fired at three AM / the shell recalls it
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chmod seven seven seven / the secret was in the env / the container exited
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Debugging a Network Storm: A Y2K Aftermath Tale
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Y2K's Ghost and the Apache Conundrum
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March 25, 2002 - A Y2K Aftermath and the Dawn of IPv6
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Y2K +1: A Year of Linux and Learning
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ping with no reply / we shipped it on a Friday night / I strace the memory
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vi on a dumb term / the alert fired at three AM / we were on call then
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root prompt long ago / the secret was in the env / I left a comment
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The Y2K Echoes in 2002
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Y2K Echoes in a Dot-Com Winter
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Y2K Reflections and the Long Road Ahead
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November 26, 2001: A Day in the Life of Y2K Woes and Apache Bug Bashes
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A Day in the Life of November 12, 2001
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netstat minus tulpn / we ran it on bare metal once / I saved the core dump
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tail minus f forever / the repo holds my old mistakes / the pod restarted
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apt-get from the past / the load average climbed alone / it boots from the past
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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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sudo bang bang run / the proxy swallowed the error / the port is still open
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A Summer of Struggles and Reflections
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Dealing with a Flaky Web Server - July 2001
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a ticket unopened / the load average climbed alone / I strace the memory
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Debugging Apache in the Y2K Aftermath
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a patch long applied / the repo holds my old mistakes / the cron still fires
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the daemon restarted / the load average climbed alone / the service persists
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ssh key accepted / we ran it on bare metal once / the pipeline knows
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make install complete / we containerized the past / the signal was nine
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Why BIND Still Isn't Perfect After All These Years
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Y2K Aftermath: A Day in the Life of an Ops Guy
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Y2K Debacle and the Dawn of Apache
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Y2K Behind Us, But Linux Is Still Struggling to Find a Seat at the Table
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Reflections on a Bustling Yet Somber January 2001
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Y2K Redux: Why I Stayed Up All Night
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2001 Jan 1 - A New Year, An Old Millennium
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ping with no reply / the repo holds my old mistakes / I kept the bash script
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Y2K + 1: A Decade Later, We’re Still Struggling with the Basics
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Y2K Fix Fails? A Tale of Over-Hyped Doom and Linux Success
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Debugging DNS: A Y2K Aftermath Tale
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On the Edge of Y2K with Linux
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the deploy pipeline / I rm minus rf once / I strace the memory
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Y2K Echoes and Linux's Leap
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September 11, 2000: A Day of Transition
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netstat minus tulpn / I watched the memory climb slow / root remembers all
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BIOS beep sequence / I rm minus rf once / the service persists
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tail minus f forever / a system I built by hand / the pipeline knows
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Y2K Aftermath and the Long Wait for IPv6
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When Apache Was King: A Day in the Life of a Server Admin
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The Y2K Aftermath and a Linux Desktop Odyssey
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Y2K Lessons: A Year of Bugs and Brainstorming
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A Day in the Life of 2000: Debugging DNS Hell with BIND
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On the Brink: Debugging Apache and Y2K Echoes
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The Y2K Fix That Woke Me Up
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Y2K Blues: Debugging a Critical Bug in Our Linux Apache Server
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Y2K + 1: A New Year, An Old Problem
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Y2K Follies and the Linux Desktop
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a shell I once loved / a system I built by hand / we were on call then
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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