Beaver Duty

Beaver Duty

The invisible work that keeps everything running

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

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Matt
Nov 21, 2025
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Some of the most impactful engineering work is also the least visible.

How do you link efforts to prevent incidents to outages that never happened?

How do you highlight incidents that were resolved in minutes instead of hours, thanks to your recent work?

How do you quantify the stress avoided because services became easier to deploy?

What we see are feature…

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