A boring deploy pipeline is a feature, not a lack of ambition. Every retry needs a budget, otherwise it is just a slower outage. The rollback plan should exist before the rollout plan is approved.
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A boring deploy pipeline is a feature, not a lack of ambition. Feature flags are debt with an expiration date you must actually enforce. Naming things well saved us more time than any framework migration. Logs answer questions you knew to ask; traces answer the ones you did not.
Caches are easy to add and surprisingly hard to remove. Small pull requests get real reviews, large ones get approvals.
Context
The fastest query is the one you never send, but the second fastest has a good index. Our on-call rotation improved the day we deleted half of the alerts. A boring deploy pipeline is a feature, not a lack of ambition. Security is mostly about saying no to defaults that were convenient in 2010.
The rollback plan should exist before the rollout plan is approved. Caches are easy to add and surprisingly hard to remove.
Lessons
Our on-call rotation improved the day we deleted half of the alerts. The fastest query is the one you never send, but the second fastest has a good index. A boring deploy pipeline is a feature, not a lack of ambition.
If the error message does not say what to do next, it is half an error message.
The best architecture diagram is the one the new hire can redraw from memory. The fastest query is the one you never send, but the second fastest has a good index.
Security is mostly about saying no to defaults that were convenient in 2010. Small pull requests get real reviews, large ones get approvals.
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