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Upstream Alert: Another patching gone wrong
A routine firewall upgrade blocked Australia’s emergency calls for over 13 hours. It’s a chilling reminder that "minor" infrastructure changes can have…
Oct 7
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Logs of Duty: Blameless Postmortems
A cultural ritual of forgiveness, with receipts.
Oct 6
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Approvals as a Service (AaaS)
Because nothing says “move fast” like waiting three days for an approval from someone who has no idea what the change is about.
Oct 1
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September 2025
Getting reliability on the product roadmap: How SREs can win prioritisation
Reliability work often loses to feature delivery. But SRE and platform teams can make the business case, speak the product language, and finally get…
Sep 26
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Logs of Duty: Feature flags forever
Because every toggle deserves a second, third, and permanent chance.
Sep 20
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The intern's last deployment
Broken links, five follow-ups, and a missing Secret: the modern DevOps culture.
Sep 15
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Why Data teams build but don’t deliver
Many data teams deliver great technical solutions that never get adopted or measured for impact. It's time to shift from building pipelines to creating…
Sep 12
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Logs of Duty: The Staging Environment
Because nothing bad ever happens in a place no one looks at.
Sep 10
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Alert fatigue solved (temporarily)
We refactored notifications. The system went quiet. Too quiet.
Sep 5
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Upstream Alert: A production database has been deleted.
Should we start blaming the AI in postmortems?
Sep 3
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August 2025
Logs of Duty: The Grafana dashboard
Making you feel better about incidents you still don’t understand.
Aug 31
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When engineers drive the roadmap: The risks of building without a product compass
Why engineering-led initiatives often miss the mark. And how to realign teams around user and business value. From an engineer.
Aug 29
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