$ grep -r networking /work /life networking
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Copilot’s Copilot: My AI Experience as a Platform Engineer
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March 2, 2026 - When Copilot Went Rogue
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green text on black glass / the proxy swallowed the error / no rollback existed
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Reflections on February 2026 - AI Copilots and the Boring K8s
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On Debugging Gemini Pro's AI Copilot with a Pinch of Reality
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packet loss at dawn / a system I built by hand / I pushed and forgot
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the firewall dropped it / a rollback took the data too / it ran in the dark
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net split in the night / the health check always lied / config never lies
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the floppy disk spun / a system I built by hand / the socket still waits
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Debugging the Magic in Production
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March 17, 2025 - AI Copilots, Wasm Controversies, and the Unending Debugging
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Reflections on March 10, 2025: When AI Became Part of the Fabric
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From Claude to Kubernetes: Navigating AI Copilots in a Multi-Cloud World
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dial-up tones at night / a system I built by hand / I still have the diff
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nmap on the lan / the version pinned to never / I kept the old box
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the rollback succeeded / the logs held no answers then / the socket still waits
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November 4, 2024: A Mosaic of Realities
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packet loss at dawn / the version pinned to never / the build artifact
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the firewall dropped it / a grep through ten years of logs / the pod restarted
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July 8, 2024 - A Tale of Two Platforms
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telnet to nowhere / the service mesh confused us all / it ran in the dark
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the old datacenter / the logs held no answers then / the socket still waits
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IRC at midnight / I mapped the disk by hand once / the wire holds the past
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port eighty was free / a grep through ten years of logs / the log is silent
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Debugging a Beast: My Year with Gemini AI
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Reflections on a Turbulent Month in Tech
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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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a race condition / I parsed the pcap for hours / it ran in the dark
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the DNS lied / the cluster held until dawn / it was in the logs
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BIOS beep sequence / the socket never closed right / I wrote the postmortem
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a merge conflict stays / I parsed the pcap for hours / I strace the memory
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the branch was deleted / I typed it and watched it burn / the socket still waits
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AI Infrastructure Meltdown: Llama 2 Takes Over My Day
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July 3, 2023: A Muddled Morning with Llama 2 and a Dash of Zenbleed
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June 12, 2023: A Day in the Life of a Platform Engineer
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the firewall dropped it / the cluster held until dawn / the pipeline knows
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net split in the night / the socket never closed right / the log is silent
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the prod deploy froze / I parsed the pcap for hours / the repo holds it all
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Notes from a March 27, 2023: AI Inflection Point and the Struggle for Control
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memory leak found / I parsed the pcap for hours / it boots from the past
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grep through the dark log / the socket never closed right / I kept the bash script
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chmod seven seven seven / I parsed the pcap for hours / it ran in the dark
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A Serverless Christmas: Reflecting on 2022's Tech Trends and My Winter Wonderland
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IRC at midnight / I parsed the pcap for hours / I strace the memory
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Debugging the Serverless Beast: A Tale of Costs and Code
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AI Winter's Embrace: A Platform Engineer's Perspective
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the kernel panicked / the socket never closed right / the cron still fires
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ping with no reply / the deploy went sideways fast / uptime was the proof
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root prompt long ago / I parsed the pcap for hours / the service persists
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FinOps: A Wake-Up Call for DevOps
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September 12, 2022 - A Month of Turbulence and Reflection
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nmap on the lan / the thread pool was too shallow / the repo holds it all
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Platform Engineering Blues: When DevOps Meets FinOps
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packet loss at dawn / the thread pool was too shallow / it ran in the dark
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the firewall dropped it / I wrote it and forgot why / I miss that old term
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Notes from a March 21st, 2022 Journal Entry
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telnet to nowhere / a crontab from two thousand two / the pipeline knows
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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: A Real Engineer's Perspective
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ping with no reply / we kept it running on hope / the stack still traces
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue: A Manager's Perspective
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nmap on the lan / the pipeline hung on step three / the cron still fires
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the DNS lied / the abstraction leaked everywhere / the signal was nine
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March 22, 2021: A Snapshot of Platform Engineering's Early Days
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the firewall dropped it / the abstraction leaked everywhere / the container exited
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January 2021: A Month of Infra Messes and Microservices Mayhem
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telnet to nowhere / a shell history of years / I miss that old term
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IRC at midnight / I diff the past against now / I saved the core dump
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port eighty was free / the abstraction leaked everywhere / a ghost in the pipe
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ping with no reply / we documented nothing then / the daemon still hums
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue: A Developer's Perspective
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yaml indent wrong / the firewall rule was too strict / it ran in the dark
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nmap on the lan / the database was the truth / it was in the logs
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March 2020: Navigating the Pandemic with Zoom and Kubernetes
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netstat minus tulpn / the firewall rule was too strict / I strace the memory
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the branch was deleted / the firewall rule was too strict / the service persists
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packet loss at dawn / the database was the truth / the pipeline knows
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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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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue: A Personal Reflection
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compile errors clear / the firewall rule was too strict / it boots from the past
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telnet to nowhere / I git bisect to old code / the container exited
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue: A Real-World Perspective
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue? It's More Than Just a Feeling
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Debugging Myself: A Tale of Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue
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port eighty was free / the heartbeat skipped at cutover / no rollback existed
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stack trace in the log / the firewall rule was too strict / the service persists
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue: A Day in the Life
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Reflections on a Pandemic Spring: Embracing the Chaos of Remote Engineering
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dial-up tones at night / the database was the truth / I saved the core dump
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nmap on the lan / we never did fix that bug / a segfault in time
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the DNS lied / the queue backed up in silence / the deploy receipt
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packet loss at dawn / we never did fix that bug / I miss that old term
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the firewall dropped it / the queue backed up in silence / we kept the old flag
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net split in the night / I traced it to the library / no rollback existed
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telnet to nowhere / I traced it to the library / the build artifact
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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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ping with no reply / I ssh to ghosts of boxes / I strace the memory
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dial-up tones at night / we never did fix that bug / uptime was the proof
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yaml indent wrong / a port scan echoes back now / the pipeline knows
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nmap on the lan / a certificate expired there / the signal was nine
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the DNS lied / the monorepo grew too wide / the repo holds it all
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netstat minus tulpn / a port scan echoes back now / I saved the core dump
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the branch was deleted / a port scan echoes back now / the shell recalls it
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packet loss at dawn / a certificate expired there / the container exited
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the firewall dropped it / the monorepo grew too wide / it ran in the dark
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Kubernetes Woes: A Day in the Life of an Overworked Platform Engineer
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net split in the night / I pivoted the table wrong / config never lies
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Kubernetes Conundrum: When Your Apps Start Talking Back
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telnet to nowhere / I pivoted the table wrong / we kept the old flag
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Kubernetes Wars: When Your Team’s Chaos Isn’t Just a Bug
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the pager went off / a port scan echoes back now / I saved the core dump
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IRC at midnight / the orchestrator chose wrong / the daemon still hums
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port eighty was free / the monorepo grew too wide / it boots from the past
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stack trace in the log / a port scan echoes back now / the shell recalls it
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ping with no reply / a kernel I compiled myself / I kept the bash script
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a segfault at three / a port scan echoes back now / it was in the logs
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dial-up tones at night / a certificate expired there / the stack still traces
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nmap on the lan / a midnight pager I still hear / I kept the old box
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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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September 19, 2016 - Kubernetes and the Struggle with Scaling
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packet loss at dawn / a midnight pager I still hear / the build artifact
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the function returned / the network split in the night / I saved the core dump
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the firewall dropped it / the config file knows the past / the pod restarted
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net split in the night / we scaled it past what it knew / it boots from the past
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Kubernetes Fails, But We Learn
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telnet to nowhere / we scaled it past what it knew / it ran in the dark
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a patch long applied / the network split in the night / it was in the logs
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a shell I once loved / the network split in the night / we were on call then
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Debugging Kubernetes: A Real-World Encounter with Pod Disruption Budgets
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IRC at midnight / the binary was statically linked / the wire holds the past
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Kubernetes vs Mesos - A Real Battle of Titans
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ping with no reply / the network split in the night / I saved the core dump
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dial-up tones at night / a midnight pager I still hear / the daemon still hums
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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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the DNS lied / I traced it to one bad line / it was in the logs
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packet loss at dawn / we ran it until it melted / we kept the old flag
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Kubernetes: The New Hope for Our Cloudburst
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Why I'm Still Rooting for Sysadmin in the Age of Containers
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telnet to nowhere / we shipped it on a Friday night / the pod restarted
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Kubernetes: A New King in Town
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port eighty was free / I traced it to one bad line / we were on call then
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ping with no reply / the alert fired at three AM / uptime was the proof
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dial-up tones at night / we ran it until it melted / the wire holds the past
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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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the DNS lied / we ran it on bare metal once / a segfault in time
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The Docker Dilemma: A Tale of Two Containers
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packet loss at dawn / I still remember that IP / it ran in the dark
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the function returned / the proxy swallowed the error / the stack still traces
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the firewall dropped it / we ran it on bare metal once / I miss that old term
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Debugging at Scale: A Day in the Life of a Platform Engineer
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man page at two AM / the proxy swallowed the error / I left a comment
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telnet to nowhere / the repo holds my old mistakes / the pipeline knows
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a patch long applied / the proxy swallowed the error / the signal was nine
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a shell I once loved / the proxy swallowed the error / a ghost in the pipe
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September 30, 2013 - A Tale of Containers and Chaos
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IRC at midnight / the load average climbed alone / I kept the bash script
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port eighty was free / we ran it on bare metal once / disk full on impact
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August 12, 2013 - Dockerizing Legacy Apps
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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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The Morning I Woke Up to Containers
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March 4, 2013 - A Day in the Life of a DevOps Monkey
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Containers on a Budget: A Docker Dive in 2013
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net split in the night / a system I built by hand / disk full on impact
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telnet to nowhere / a system I built by hand / I miss that old term
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IRC at midnight / old servers never forget / I saved the core dump
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port eighty was free / I watched the memory climb slow / a ghost in the pipe
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ping with no reply / the health check always lied / the daemon still hums
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dial-up tones at night / I rm minus rf once / I kept the bash script
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nmap on the lan / we patched it and moved along / it was in the logs
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the DNS lied / I mapped the disk by hand once / I kept the old box
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Debugging the Chaos at Scale: A Day in the Life of a Platform Engineer
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December 5, 2011 - A Day in the Life of Ops Before DevOps
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Why Chef Won't Save You (Or Me)
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telnet to nowhere / the version pinned to never / the container exited
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IRC at midnight / the logs held no answers then / uptime was the proof
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port eighty was free / I mapped the disk by hand once / no rollback existed
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April 25, 2011 - DevOps Wars and the Chaos of Change
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dial-up tones at night / we patched it and moved along / I saved the core dump
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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 DNS lied / I parsed the pcap for hours / the deploy receipt
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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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packet loss at dawn / I typed it and watched it burn / I miss that old term
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the function returned / the socket never closed right / I strace the memory
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the firewall dropped it / I parsed the pcap for hours / we kept the old flag
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September 2010: The Year of DevOps and NoSQL
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man page at two AM / the socket never closed right / the service persists
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a ticket unopened / I parsed the pcap for hours / the wire holds the past
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telnet to nowhere / the namespace collision held / the build artifact
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July 26, 2010 - DevOps Wars and the Chaos of Tech
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July 5, 2010 - A Day in the Life of a DevOps Pioneering Engineer
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a shell I once loved / the socket never closed right / it boots from the past
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first commit pushed live / I parsed the pcap for hours / the deploy receipt
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Notes from a NoSQL Noob in the Era of Chaos
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April 5, 2010 - A DevOps Riddle Wrapped in a Chef
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March 29, 2010 - DevOps vs. Just Getting Sh*t Done
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March 1, 2010 - A Day in the Life of a DevOps Engineer
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February 8, 2010 - Day of the Unintended Consequence
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dial-up tones at night / I typed it and watched it burn / uptime was the proof
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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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the DNS lied / we blamed the cache as always / the repo holds it all
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packet loss at dawn / the endpoint broke on staging / the container exited
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sudo bang bang run / we kept it running on hope / the port is still open
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the firewall dropped it / we blamed the cache as always / it ran in the dark
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net split in the night / the thread pool was too shallow / config never lies
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uptime of nine years / we kept it running on hope / packet loss remains
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telnet to nowhere / the thread pool was too shallow / we kept the old flag
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IRC at midnight / we merged without a review / the daemon still hums
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port eighty was free / we blamed the cache as always / it boots from the past
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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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dial-up tones at night / the endpoint broke on staging / the stack still traces
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November 10, 2008 - Debugging the Cloud
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nmap on the lan / the index was never rebuilt / I kept the old box
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When the iPhone Was Still a Hot New Thing
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Debugging Production with Hadoop
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the firewall dropped it / I diff the past against now / the pod restarted
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net split in the night / the pipeline hung on step three / it boots from the past
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compile errors clear / the abstraction leaked everywhere / the port is still open
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telnet to nowhere / the pipeline hung on step three / it ran in the dark
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March 10, 2008 - A Week of Twists and Turns
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December 17, 2007: The Year the Cloud Whispered to Me
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December 10, 2007 - A Tale of Two Data Centers
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ping with no reply / a shell history of years / I saved the core dump
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dial-up tones at night / the index was never rebuilt / the daemon still hums
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nmap on the lan / the firewall rule was too strict / the deploy receipt
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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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the swap filled at last / the firewall rule was too strict / config never lies
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tail minus f forever / I git bisect to old code / packet loss remains
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June 4, 2007 - A Messy Weekend with Git and MySQL
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the firewall dropped it / the terminal remembers me / the pipeline knows
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the config was wrong / the firewall rule was too strict / the wire holds the past
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April 9, 2007: A Week of Crazy Tech and a Lesson in Debugging
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the floppy disk spun / the firewall rule was too strict / the merge was final
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telnet to nowhere / the database was the truth / the pod restarted
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Debugging the Monday Blues with a New Tool
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Debugging the Holiday Rush: A Day in the Life of a Newfangled Sysadmin
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tab complete recalled / the firewall rule was too strict / config never lies
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cold bare metal hum / I git bisect to old code / packet loss remains
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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 Scripting Circus: Automating My Life
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dial-up tones at night / the firewall rule was too strict / the wire holds the past
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Debugging with Perl: A Summer of Sweat and Scripting
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the DNS lied / the rollout was never finished / the key still exists
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apt-get from the past / the rollout was never finished / the port is still open
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Xen Nightmares: The Day My Server Fell Apart
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Debugging a Django Bug that Brought Down Our Service
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Debugging a Web 2.0 Dilemma: Xen & MySQL
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Debugging the Red Hat
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A Late Summer Downturn: Debugging Apache and Learning Python
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port eighty was free / the rollout was never finished / the port is still open
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ping with no reply / I traced it to the library / the stack still traces
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the old server hums / the rollout was never finished / packet loss remains
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Debugging a Python Nightmare
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nmap on the lan / a port scan echoes back now / the cron still fires
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the DNS lied / the orchestrator chose wrong / the signal was nine
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the swap filled at last / a port scan echoes back now / the log is silent
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packet loss at dawn / a port scan echoes back now / the pod restarted
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Debugging Python at 4 AM - A Day in the Life of a Sysadmin
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the config was wrong / a port scan echoes back now / I kept the bash script
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net split in the night / a certificate expired there / the port is still open
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November 8, 2004 - The Year the Web Got Real
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telnet to nowhere / a certificate expired there / packet loss remains
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make install complete / a port scan echoes back now / the cron still fires
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tab complete recalled / a port scan echoes back now / the log is silent
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IRC at midnight / that script still runs somewhere deep / I saved the core dump
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Debugging Django with GDB
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Why Perl Still Rocks in 2004
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Debugging Daylight Savings Time
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Debugging the Dream: A Night With MySQL
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green text on black glass / a certificate expired there / the port is still open
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nmap on the lan / memory I can not free / it was in the logs
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A Day in the Life of an Ops Guy in 2004
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a race condition / the incident taught us the most / packet loss remains
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the DNS lied / the binary was statically linked / I kept the old box
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Debugging the Great Server Swap
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packet loss at dawn / memory I can not free / the pipeline knows
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sudo bang bang run / the network split in the night / the log is silent
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the firewall dropped it / the binary was statically linked / the build artifact
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The Day We Migrated to Xen
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When Perl Was King: A Debugging Odyssey in October 2003
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Debugging the Dream: A September 2003 Tale of LAMP and Legacy
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Life in the LAMP Jungle
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memory leak found / the incident taught us the most / the port is still open
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Scripting Hell: A Python Adventure
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The Perl Pitfalls of Summer 2003
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Debugging the Great Mysql Lockout
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Debugging the Mother of All Downtimes
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The Year of Digg - A Sysadmin’s Perspective
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ping with no reply / we scaled it past what it knew / the wire holds the past
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2003: A Year of Web 2.0 Beginnings and Learning the Hard Way
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dial-up tones at night / memory I can not free / I saved the core dump
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nmap on the lan / we named it temporary once / the key still exists
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A Day in the Life of 2002: When I Thought I Knew Everything
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Y2K Echoes in 2002: An Infrastructure Manager's Perspective
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Why Linux on the Desktop Wasn't a No-brainer in 2002
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the firewall dropped it / the segfault taught me the most / we kept the old flag
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Reflections on a Post-Bust Summer
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telnet to nowhere / we ran it until it melted / the build artifact
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Y2K's Ghost and the Apache Conundrum
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Y2K's Echoes and the Linux Desktop Invasion
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port eighty was free / the segfault taught me the most / config never lies
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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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dial-up tones at night / we named it temporary once / root remembers all
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Y2K Reflections and the Long Road Ahead
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the rollback succeeded / the proxy swallowed the error / I blamed the sidecar
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Y2K and Late Night Bug Hunts
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Back when 10 Gig was a Big Deal
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packet loss at dawn / we containerized the past / the container exited
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sudo bang bang run / the proxy swallowed the error / the port is still open
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Y2K Redux: A Lesson in Redundancy
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A Y2K Survivor’s Reflections on July 9, 2001
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Linux on the Desktop: A Dream That Felt Like a Nightmare
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IPv6, a Dream Deferred
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the monolith ran / the proxy swallowed the error / root remembers all
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the old datacenter / the proxy swallowed the error / I blamed the sidecar
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Reflections on a Bustling Yet Somber January 2001
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IRC at midnight / the flag was set in production / the daemon still hums
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Debugging a Y2K Aftermath: A Mysterious Network Glitch
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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 Echoes and Apache Struggles
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yaml indent wrong / I watched the memory climb slow / packet loss remains
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On the Edge of Y2K with Linux
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September 11, 2000: A Day of Transition
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When Apache Was King: A Day in the Life of a Server Admin
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Debugging Y2K in Real Time
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Debugging Apache in Y2K's Aftermath
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Y2K Glitch? More Like Y2K+10 Glimpse
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Living in a Post-Blip World
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Y2K Blues: Debugging a Critical Bug in Our Linux Apache Server