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Logs of Duty: The Agile standup
The most efficient way to waste 15 minutes
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Upstream Alert: Amazon Q almost helped to optimise AWS bills in seconds
A malicious pull request slipped into Amazon’s AI coding assistant and nearly turned it into a self-destruct bot. It’s a reminder that prompt injection…
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The last mine
I survived Security, Performance, and Release. Only to be taken down by Agile.
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You have metrics. So why are incidents still a mystery?
Teams have more dashboards, metrics, and alerts than ever, but still struggle to respond effectively during incidents. Learn how to build systems that…
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Upstream Alert: We all fall for the same trap
A routine OS update took down Heroku for 23 hours on June 10th, 2025. The incident echoes similar outages at OpenAI and Datadog, reminding us that…
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Logs of Duty: Zero Trust (except for the CI)
Lock down your engineers. Leave the pipeline wide open.
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Slack and the breakfast of champions
Why opening Slack before breakfast is the first mistake of the day.
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Upstream Alert: Your website can't load!
A quiet config change in June mislabeled Cloudflare’s production DNS (1.1.1.1) as part of a pre-prod test system.
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Why the best Platform teams stay out of the way
Platform teams shouldn’t be the heroes of the story, product teams should. The best support comes from boring and predictable systems that unlock speed…
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