Beaver Duty

Beaver Duty

You build it, you run it, but I broke it

Because you asked me to rotate passwords.

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Matt
Jun 14, 2025
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You build it, you run it. I will raise a SEV-1 incident if I don’t hear someone say that at least once a week. It is the polite way of saying: “Good luck, you are alone out there”. But I think this is inaccurate. The original sentence must have been: you want it, you build it, you run it. But the product folks probably removed the first part to protect …

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