Dam Logs

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

Aug 16 •

Slack and the breakfast of champions

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

Aug 6 •

I think I’m on track

My biggest achievement was a faster CI pipeline.

Jul 31 •

The one who fixed the Voldemort app

It was supposed to be a senior-level challenge.

Jul 19 •

The dashboard nobody noticed was broken

A regular day in the life of a data engineer.

Jul 14 •

Vacation starts when Slack stops

But if only it could stop.

Jul 9 •

The day I became known to the C-Suite. Against my will.

Self-serve access control and the price of ignorance.

Jun 30 •

The eternal migration

When migrations outlive their masters.

Jun 26 •

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

Because you asked me to rotate passwords.

Jun 14 •

What does an SRE actually do?

A small conversation. A quiet existential crisis. A normal day in SRE.

Jun 10 •

First one-on-one: a survival log

How are you? (Please say ‘fine’)

Jun 6 •

No alerts, no problems

Until Prometheus restarts 4,556 times.

May 29 •

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