Everything survived. Except the explanation. A while ago I was trying to understand why one of...
Everything survived. Except the explanation.
A while ago I was trying to understand why one of our services used Redis.
Finding the artifacts wasn't difficult.
There was a Jira ticket.
A pull request.
The file survived. The explanation didn't. A few months ago I needed to understand why one of our...
I want to start with a moment most of us have lived through. It's 3 a.m. A dashboard is red. You're...
Every engineering team has a version of this story. It’s 2 AM. Redis is down. The on-call engineer...
For most of my career I had backups I had never restored. The backup job ran every night. The green...
The Quest Begins (The "Why") I still remember the night our staging database went dark. A...
Sometimes the answer isn't missing. It's just scattered. A few weeks ago I caught myself doing...
