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Practical notes from building, operating and troubleshooting software and production systems.

Deployments Should Be Boring

Deployments Should Be Boring

The best deployments are boring.

AutomationDevOpsDeploymentReliability

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Infrastructure Should Be Rebuildable

Infrastructure Should Be Rebuildable

If I built it once, I should be able to build it again.

AutomationDevOpsInfrastructure as Code

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Container Up. Application Down.

Container Up. Application Down.

A running Docker container doesn’t always mean the application is working.

DockerTroubleshootingDevOpsSRE

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