Archive - Beaver Duty

Don’t be a hero

How firefighting engineers hide system failures and keep organizations fragile

Jan 30 • Matt

The trust gap in Data teams

How freshness, availability, and pipeline success rates miss the only metric that matters: confidence.

Jan 16 • Matt

Logs of Duty: Migration projects

From bold initiative to historical artifact.

Jan 9 • Matt

Governance: Great intentions, bad outcomes

How well-meant policies create friction, slow teams down, and damage trust when empathy is missing.

Jan 2 • Matt

December 2025

Logs of Duty: System Ownership

A comprehensive guide to avoiding responsibility at scale.

Dec 27, 2025 • Matt

Metrics without meaning

When numbers stop telling the truth about progress

Dec 19, 2025 • Matt

Logs of Duty: Disaster Recovery

Because resilience is mostly about confidence.

Dec 13, 2025 • Matt

Another year, another migration

Because nothing says “progress” like restarting from zero.

Dec 7, 2025 • Matt

AI models are the new technical debt

AI systems fail quietly. They rot in production while dashboards stay green.

Dec 5, 2025 • Matt

November 2025

Logs of Duty: The onboarding

Welcome to the team. Good luck.

Nov 30, 2025 • Matt

Memory loss: The leading cause of workplace accidents

How two managers forgot everything except whose fault it was

Nov 23, 2025 • Matt

The invisible work that keeps everything running

What if the work you can’t measure is the work that matters most?

Nov 21, 2025 • Matt

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