Dam Logs

Another year, another migration

Because nothing says “progress” like restarting from zero.

Dec 7, 2025 • Matt

Memory loss: The leading cause of workplace accidents

How two managers forgot everything except whose fault it was

Nov 23, 2025 • Matt

Where every outage is an opportunity to create another one.

Nov 9, 2025 • Matt

AI dreams, corporate realities

Or why no machine can survive our bureaucracy.

Oct 26, 2025 • Matt

The Reliability Leaderboard

How I lost my top spot in 23 minutes.

Oct 13, 2025 • Matt

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, 2025 • Matt

The intern's last deployment

Broken links, five follow-ups, and a missing Secret: the modern DevOps culture.

Sep 15, 2025 • Matt

Alert fatigue solved (temporarily)

We refactored notifications. The system went quiet. Too quiet.

Sep 5, 2025 • Matt

Cost optimization Hero, Bronze tier

We deleted, we saved, we lost more than we gained.

Aug 26, 2025 • Matt

I survived Security, Performance, and Release. Only to be taken down by Agile.

Aug 16, 2025 • Matt

Slack and the breakfast of champions

Why opening Slack before breakfast is the first mistake of the day.

Aug 6, 2025 • Matt

I think I’m on track

My biggest achievement was a faster CI pipeline.

Jul 31, 2025 • Matt

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