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Serguey Shinder20h ago • 2 min read
Ship Small So the Rollback Is Small
Early in my career I worked somewhere that deployed once a month. It felt safe on paper, a big...
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Serguey Shinder20h ago • 2 min read
Lifting and Shifting Just Moves the Mess to a Pricier Address
I have sat through a lot of cloud migration retrospectives, and the disappointed ones nearly always....
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Serguey Shinder20h ago • 2 min read
Complexity Is the Tax You Pay for Every Convenient Abstraction
Every year the tools we build on get more capable and, quietly, more layered. A simple web service.....
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Serguey Shinder20h ago • 2 min read
When You Say Two Weeks, They Hear a Promise
I used to give estimates the way most engineers do, as an honest technical guess with a fog of...
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Serguey Shinder20h ago • 2 min read
A Schema Migration Is Surgery, Not a Deploy
The scariest deploys I have ever run were not code deploys. They were schema migrations. Code you ca...
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Serguey Shinder20h ago • 2 min read
The Riskiest Change Is the One Everyone Calls Trivial
The worst outage of my career was caused by a one-line change that three people, including me,...
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Serguey Shinder1d ago • 2 min read
Least Privilege Is a Habit, Not a Project
Most breaches I have seen up close did not start with some genius exploit. They started with an...
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Serguey Shinder20h ago • 2 min read
The Patch You Postpone Is the Exploit You Invite
Almost every serious incident I have helped clean up had the same quiet ingredient: a known...
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Serguey Shinder1d ago • 2 min read
Automate the Boring Path, Keep a Manual Escape Hatch
There is a stage every automation enthusiast passes through where the goal becomes automating...
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Serguey Shinder1d ago • 2 min read
Write the Runbook Before You Need It, Not After
Every ops team I have worked on has the same folklore: the one senior who "just knows" how to restar...
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Serguey Shinder1d ago • 2 min read
Backups You Have Never Restored Are Just Hope
I have a question I ask any team that tells me their data is safe: when did you last restore from a....
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Serguey Shinder1d ago • 2 min read
The Skill That Survives Is Knowing Why, Not How
I have watched enough technology cycles now to be calm about the current wave of anxiety over...
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Serguey Shinder1d ago • 2 min read
Nobody Upstairs Cares About Your Uptime Number
Early in my career I walked into a leadership meeting proud of a number. We had hit 99.95 percent...
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Serguey Shinder1d ago • 2 min read
Your Cloud Bill Is an Architecture Diagram
The fastest way to understand how a cloud system is really built is not the architecture diagram...
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