$ grep -r sre /work /life sre
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Debugging the Copilot Meltdown
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Debugging a Real-Time AI Copilot Mishap
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the deploy pipeline / the health check always lied / the wire holds the past
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the rollback succeeded / old servers never forget / the secret rotated
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BIOS beep sequence / the health check always lied / the merge was final
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Debugging a Multi-cloud SNAFU with Wasm + eBPF
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sudo bang bang run / old servers never forget / disk full on impact
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net split in the night / the health check always lied / config never lies
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Debugging a GPT-5 Deployment with Real People
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compile errors clear / I rm minus rf once / we were on call then
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Debugging the Magic in Production
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When AI Became My New Pair of Eyes
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The AI Copilot Dilemma
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the old datacenter / old servers never forget / the secret rotated
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the pager went off / I rm minus rf once / I saved the core dump
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AI Copilot Woes: A Day in the Life of a Bored Engineering Manager
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cold bare metal hum / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / the pod restarted
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The Day Claude 3.7 Took Over My Monitor
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A Year of Debugging Demons and Learning Lessons
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green text on black glass / the health check always lied / config never lies
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netstat minus tulpn / we patched it and moved along / uptime was the proof
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the config was wrong / the version pinned to never / the daemon still hums
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uptime of nine years / the logs held no answers then / I pushed and forgot
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Notes from the Serverless Frontier
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the old datacenter / the logs held no answers then / the socket still waits
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the pager went off / we patched it and moved along / uptime was the proof
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November 27, 2023 - A Day in the Life of a Platform Engineer Amidst Industry Turmoil
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BIOS beep sequence / the socket never closed right / I wrote the postmortem
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Musing on Maglevs, M1 GPUs, and the AI Infrastructure Boom
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July 24, 2023 - AI Infrastructure Blues
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On the Edge: Debugging a Production Outage with WebAssembly
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May 1, 2023 - The Moat Hasn't Moved, But the Battle Lines Are Clear
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March 13, 2023 - AI's Big Bang & My Serverless Odyssey
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the daemon restarted / the cluster held until dawn / the shell recalls it
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the old datacenter / a timeout with no fallback / the patch is still live
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the pager went off / I typed it and watched it burn / I still have the diff
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Reflecting on 2022: A Year of Downtime, Debugging, and DevOps
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the build finally passed / a timeout with no fallback / I kept the old box
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Debugging the Serverless Beast: A Tale of Costs and Code
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On the Edge of a New Era: Reflections on a Mosaic Month
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netstat minus tulpn / the endpoint broke on staging / the daemon still hums
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first loop I ever wrote / we blamed the cache as always / I wrote the postmortem
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April 4, 2022 - A Week in the Life of a Platform Engineer
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a ticket unopened / I wrote it and forgot why / uptime was the proof
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the daemon restarted / I wrote it and forgot why / the secret rotated
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Navigating the Labyrinth of Kubernetes Complexity
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When Debugging Meets Real Life: A Kubernetes Cluster Woes Story
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root prompt long ago / we blamed the cache as always / I wrote the postmortem
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the old server hums / I wrote it and forgot why / I miss that old term
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a segfault at three / the endpoint broke on staging / I kept the old box
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green text on black glass / a crontab from two thousand two / we were on call then
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the function returned / we documented nothing then / the daemon still hums
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uptime of nine years / we ran out of inodes first / it ran in the dark
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the floppy disk spun / the pipeline hung on step three / I wrote the postmortem
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a patch long applied / we documented nothing then / I kept the old box
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the daemon restarted / the abstraction leaked everywhere / I left a comment
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grep through the dark log / a shell history of years / uptime was the proof
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue and the Art of Keeping it Simple
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the pager went off / the index was never rebuilt / the wire holds the past
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A Remote Work Day in August 2020
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ping with no reply / we documented nothing then / the daemon still hums
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the old server hums / the abstraction leaked everywhere / the container exited
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Remote Ops: A Week in Quarantine
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March 2020: Navigating the Pandemic with Zoom and Kubernetes
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the swap filled at last / the database was the truth / we were on call then
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uptime of nine years / I read the RFC again / the pod restarted
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue and the Siren Song of SRE
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the daemon restarted / the heartbeat skipped at cutover / the patch is still live
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the old datacenter / I read the RFC again / I wrote the postmortem
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first commit pushed live / the heartbeat skipped at cutover / I kept the old box
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tab complete recalled / the database was the truth / we were on call then
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue: Navigating the Chaos
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Kubernetes Complexity Fatigue and My Journey with ArgoCD
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the deploy pipeline / I traced it to the library / the daemon still hums
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February 25, 2019 - SRE's Dilemma: Scaling Remote Infra in a Pandemic
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January 7, 2019 - A Year of Complexity and Clarity
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the buffer overflowed / we named the server badly then / it was in the logs
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Kubernetes Wins, But What About Our Legacy Systems?
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sudo bang bang run / we named the server badly then / we were on call then
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Kubernetes: The New King of the Hill
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Kubernetes Wars: A Personal Battle
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uptime of nine years / we named the server badly then / the pipeline knows
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a patch long applied / I ssh to ghosts of boxes / the repo holds it all
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the monolith ran / we named the server badly then / I saved the core dump
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the daemon restarted / the queue backed up in silence / the merge was final
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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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cold bare metal hum / I ssh to ghosts of boxes / it ran in the dark
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the build finally passed / we named the server badly then / it was in the logs
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stack trace in the log / the interrupt handler failed / I wrote the postmortem
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the kernel panicked / I traced it to the library / I kept the old box
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vi on a dumb term / we named the server badly then / we were on call then
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the old server hums / the queue backed up in silence / we kept the old flag
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dial-up tones at night / we never did fix that bug / uptime was the proof
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the blinking cursor / I ssh to ghosts of boxes / the service persists
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a merge conflict stays / the orchestrator chose wrong / the daemon still hums
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uptime of nine years / that script still runs somewhere deep / I miss that old term
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the prod deploy froze / the orchestrator chose wrong / I kept the old box
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the monolith ran / that script still runs somewhere deep / uptime was the proof
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the old datacenter / that script still runs somewhere deep / the secret rotated
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IRC at midnight / the orchestrator chose wrong / the daemon still hums
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A Late Night with Prometheus and Grafana
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the rollback succeeded / the incident taught us the most / I left a comment
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Kubernetes vs. Our Legacy Setup: A Year Later
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the buffer overflowed / the incident taught us the most / the signal was nine
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sudo bang bang run / the incident taught us the most / a ghost in the pipe
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Kubernetes, Helm, and a Month of Wonders
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uptime of nine years / the incident taught us the most / the container exited
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the floppy disk spun / a midnight pager I still hear / the patch is still live
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the monolith ran / the incident taught us the most / the stack still traces
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the daemon restarted / the config file knows the past / I wrote the postmortem
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Kubernetes, NPM Left-Pad, and the Year I Learned Humility
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the old datacenter / the incident taught us the most / I left a comment
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the pager went off / memory I can not free / uptime was the proof
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vi on a dumb term / the incident taught us the most / a ghost in the pipe
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Containerizing Our Java Monolith: A Lesson in Simplicity
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dial-up tones at night / a midnight pager I still hear / the daemon still hums
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ps aux at midnight / the alert fired at three AM / disk full on impact
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BIOS beep sequence / we shipped it on a Friday night / I wrote the postmortem
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tail minus f forever / the alert fired at three AM / I miss that old term
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the buffer overflowed / the secret was in the env / I kept the old box
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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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Container Chaos: The Year Docker Went Mainstream
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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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a patch long applied / the alert fired at three AM / a segfault in time
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the monolith ran / the secret was in the env / the daemon still hums
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February 9, 2015 – When Everything Feels Like a Mess
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a shell I once loved / the alert fired at three AM / disk full on impact
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January 5, 2015 - A Year of Transition
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Containers Gone Wild: A Docker Diatribe
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a diff I once wrote / we shipped it on a Friday night / I wrote the postmortem
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cold bare metal hum / the alert fired at three AM / I miss that old term
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the build finally passed / the secret was in the env / I kept the old box
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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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the old server hums / I traced it to one bad line / the pipeline knows
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Container Hell: A Real-world Kubernetes Dilemma
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a race condition / the load average climbed alone / the pod restarted
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netstat minus tulpn / we containerized the past / the daemon still hums
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apt-get from the past / we ran it on bare metal once / disk full on impact
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March 31, 2014: A Day in the Life of a DevOps Engineer
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the firewall dropped it / we ran it on bare metal once / I miss that old term
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March 17, 2014 - Docker Fever and the 12-Factor App
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uptime of nine years / the flag was set in production / we kept the old flag
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February 3, 2014 - A Day in the Life of a DevOps Journeyman
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memory leak found / the load average climbed alone / the log is silent
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the daemon restarted / we ran it on bare metal once / the secret rotated
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November 11, 2013 – The Container Revolution's Dawn
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chmod seven seven seven / the load average climbed alone / the pod restarted
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October 21, 2013 – Dockering the DevOps Garage
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September 30, 2013 - A Tale of Containers and Chaos
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port eighty was free / we ran it on bare metal once / disk full on impact
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root prompt long ago / the load average climbed alone / I wrote the postmortem
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the old server hums / we ran it on bare metal once / I miss that old term
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a segfault at three / we containerized the past / I kept the old box
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green text on black glass / the repo holds my old mistakes / we were on call then
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the deploy pipeline / a system I built by hand / uptime was the proof
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the function returned / the health check always lied / the daemon still hums
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first loop I ever wrote / old servers never forget / the shell recalls it
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man page at two AM / the health check always lied / the patch is still live
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uptime of nine years / the deploy left no breadcrumbs / it ran in the dark
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the prod deploy froze / old servers never forget / it was in the logs
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the floppy disk spun / I rm minus rf once / I wrote the postmortem
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a patch long applied / the health check always lied / I kept the old box
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Config Management Wars: A Chef's Perspective
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Config Management Wars: A Chef's Tale
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October 1, 2012 - A Day in the Life of a Platform Engineer
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the pager went off / a rollback took the data too / the wire holds the past
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cold bare metal hum / the health check always lied / the build artifact
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ping with no reply / the health check always lied / the daemon still hums
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June 4, 2012: Chaos Reigns (or at Least, It Did)
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DevOps Demos and the Dawn of Chaos
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the blinking cursor / the health check always lied / the patch is still live
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the DNS lied / I mapped the disk by hand once / I kept the old box
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the swap filled at last / we patched it and moved along / we were on call then
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a merge conflict stays / the logs held no answers then / uptime was the proof
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uptime of nine years / what the stack trace never showed / the pod restarted
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a ticket unopened / I mapped the disk by hand once / the daemon still hums
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the daemon restarted / I mapped the disk by hand once / the patch is still live
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Chaos Engineering in a New World
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first commit pushed live / I mapped the disk by hand once / I kept the old box
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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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IRC at midnight / the logs held no answers then / uptime was the proof
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April 4, 2011 - A Day in the Life of a New Manager
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Config Management Wars: A Love-Hate Relationship
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Notes from a Mid-November Day in 2010
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strace on the wire / the namespace collision held / I kept the old box
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the config was wrong / I typed it and watched it burn / uptime was the proof
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uptime of nine years / the deploy went sideways fast / the pipeline knows
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Config Management Wars: A Tale of Puppet vs. Chef
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the pager went off / the cluster held until dawn / I kept the bash script
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Notes from a NoSQL Noob in the Era of Chaos
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stack trace in the log / the cluster held until dawn / I wrote the postmortem
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the kernel panicked / the namespace collision held / I kept the old box
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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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man page at two AM / a crontab from two thousand two / I wrote the postmortem
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uptime of nine years / we kept it running on hope / packet loss remains
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compile errors clear / I wrote it and forgot why / we were on call then
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Debugging in the Cloud: A Day in the Life of 2009
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Debugging in the Cloud: April 2009 Edition
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the pager went off / I wrote it and forgot why / I saved the core dump
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cold bare metal hum / a crontab from two thousand two / the pod restarted
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the old server hums / we blamed the cache as always / it ran in the dark
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the blinking cursor / a crontab from two thousand two / I wrote the postmortem
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ps aux at midnight / a shell history of years / we were on call then
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June 9, 2008 - The Year I Learned to Love Git
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A Tale of Two Servers: An Old Friend and a New Hire
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March 17, 2008 - A Day in the Life of a Tech Manager
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make install complete / the index was never rebuilt / I kept the old box
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a shell I once loved / a shell history of years / we were on call then
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Debugging the Monday Blues in 2008
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January 21, 2008 - A Tale of Two Crashes
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the old server hums / I diff the past against now / the pod restarted
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dial-up tones at night / the index was never rebuilt / the daemon still hums
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BIOS beep sequence / the database was the truth / I wrote the postmortem
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apt-get from the past / the terminal remembers me / we were on call then
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the monolith ran / a webhook fired into void / the daemon still hums
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Reflections on the Winter of 2007: When Cloud Was Still a New Kid on the Block
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the old datacenter / a webhook fired into void / the patch is still live
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the pager went off / the heartbeat skipped at cutover / the stack still traces
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a diff I once wrote / the database was the truth / I wrote the postmortem
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the rollback succeeded / I ssh to ghosts of boxes / the merge was final
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A Month in the Life of a Sysadmin: June 2006
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netstat minus tulpn / the queue backed up in silence / the daemon still hums
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sudo bang bang run / I ssh to ghosts of boxes / config never lies
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first loop I ever wrote / we named the server badly then / I wrote the postmortem
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Debugging the Great MySQL Meltdown
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Debugging a Web 2.0 Dilemma: Xen & MySQL
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uptime of nine years / I ssh to ghosts of boxes / we kept the old flag
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the monolith ran / I ssh to ghosts of boxes / the wire holds the past
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memory leak found / we named the server badly then / the log is silent
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Scripting the Future: A Day in the Life of a Web Engineer
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the old datacenter / I ssh to ghosts of boxes / the merge was final
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chmod seven seven seven / we named the server badly then / the pod restarted
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the pager went off / the queue backed up in silence / the daemon still hums
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cold bare metal hum / I traced it to the library / the container exited
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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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the old server hums / the rollout was never finished / packet loss remains
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Debugging Digg: The Day the Link-Posting Beast Crashed My Server
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green text on black glass / we never did fix that bug / we were on call then
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Late Winter Blues: Debugging My First Production Glitch
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November 8, 2004 - The Year the Web Got Real
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a patch long applied / I pivoted the table wrong / I kept the old box
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memory leak found / that script still runs somewhere deep / we were on call then
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the daemon restarted / the orchestrator chose wrong / I left a comment
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the pager went off / the monorepo grew too wide / the wire holds the past
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2004: Year of the Script Kiddie?
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Debugging Daylight Savings Time
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Debugging Digg: A Tale of Two Servers
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the deploy pipeline / a midnight pager I still hear / the stack still traces
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the swap filled at last / memory I can not free / we were on call then
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Debugging a LAMP Stack Meltdown
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a merge conflict stays / the incident taught us the most / root remembers all
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Debugging with a Dash of Python: A Day in the Life of 2003
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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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A Month in the Life of a Sysadmin, October 2003
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a ticket unopened / the binary was statically linked / the daemon still hums
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Debugging the Dream: A September 2003 Tale of LAMP and Legacy
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Debugging with Perl: A Day in the Life of an Ops Engineer
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The Year of My First Script
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Scripting Hell: A Python Adventure
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a diff I once wrote / a midnight pager I still hear / I left a comment
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cold bare metal hum / we scaled it past what it knew / we kept the old flag
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Debugging the Mother of All Downtimes
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the kernel panicked / a midnight pager I still hear / the signal was nine
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Debugging the Day Away with Apache
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green text on black glass / a midnight pager I still hear / a ghost in the pipe
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Debugging a Nightmarish Nginx Configuration
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Life After Y2K: Debugging Apache and Learning from the Bust
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Y2K: A Year That Taught Us a Lot About Preparedness
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On the Brink: Debugging a DNS Glitch That Nearly Crashed Our Site
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sudo bang bang run / the alert fired at three AM / we were on call then
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uptime of nine years / the alert fired at three AM / the pipeline knows
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Linux on the Desktop: A Mere Fantasy?
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On the Brink: Linux Desktops and the Y2K Aftermath
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the old datacenter / the alert fired at three AM / the shell recalls it
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Debugging a Network Storm: A Y2K Aftermath Tale
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A Late Y2K Checkup
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March 25, 2002 - A Y2K Aftermath and the Dawn of IPv6
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The Linux Desktop's Slow Climb: A Personal Struggle
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2002: The Year of Patching and Praying
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vi on a dumb term / the alert fired at three AM / we were on call then
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the old server hums / the segfault taught me the most / we kept the old flag
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Y2K's Echoes and the Linux Desktop: December 17, 2001
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Y2K Fallout and the Linux Desktop
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apt-get from the past / the load average climbed alone / it boots from the past
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Y2K Redux: A Lesson in Redundancy
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A Summer of Struggles and Reflections
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Linux on the Desktop: A Dream That Felt Like a Nightmare
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Debugging DNS Hell on a Saturday Night
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Debugging Apache in the Y2K Aftermath
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the daemon restarted / the load average climbed alone / the service persists
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the old datacenter / the proxy swallowed the error / I blamed the sidecar
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Linux on the Desktop: A Mismatched Love Affair
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Y2K Was Just a Warm-Up: Embracing the Linux Desktop
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cold bare metal hum / the repo holds my old mistakes / the pod restarted
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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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the old server hums / the load average climbed alone / it ran in the dark
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a segfault at three / we ran it on bare metal once / it was in the logs
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Y2K Echoes and Linux's Leap
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Y2K Redux: A Night of Worry and Debugging
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IPv6 Debates and a Night of Debugging
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Y2K Aftermath and the Long Wait for IPv6
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Y2K Lessons: A Year of Bugs and Brainstorming
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Debugging Y2K in Real Time
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Y2K Aftermath Blues
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uptime of nine years / the health check always lied / the container exited
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The Y2K Fix That Woke Me Up
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Debugging Linux Kernels: A 2000s Tale
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the daemon restarted / old servers never forget / I wrote the postmortem
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a shell I once loved / a system I built by hand / we were on call then
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Y2K Blues: A Night at the Data Center
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the pager went off / I watched the memory climb slow / root remembers all