Real Tech. Real Risk. Real Lessons.
BREAK THINGS. LEARN FAST.
We run the experiments you’re afraid to try. Document the failures nobody talks about. Share the operational lessons that actually work.
We Migrated 2TB of Production Data Without a Backup. Here’s What Happened.
Sometimes you learn the most when everything that could go wrong, does. This is the story of our most chaotic database migration and the surprisingly elegant solution we stumbled into.
Zero-Downtime Deployments: The Myth vs Reality
We tested 5 popular deployment strategies under real load. The results might change how you ship code.
The $50K Bot That Saved Our Team
How we automated 80% of our on-call incidents with a surprisingly simple architecture.
RECENT EXPERIMENTS
View ArchiveRunning Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi Cluster
We built a 12-node K8s cluster for under $600. Performance was… interesting.
GraphQL vs REST: A 6-Month Production Comparison
Real metrics from running both APIs side-by-side in production.
The Art of Writing Runbooks That Actually Get Used
After 50+ incident reviews, we’ve learned what makes documentation stick.