Runbook Hygiene: Why Yours Are Lying to You
Your runbooks are out of date. I don't know your team, but I'd bet money on it. Most teams write runbooks once, in a panic after an outage, and then…
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Your runbooks are out of date. I don't know your team, but I'd bet money on it. Most teams write runbooks once, in a panic after an outage, and then…
The Genesis on the Factory Floor Long before user stories, sprints and swimlanes, Taiichi Ohno looked at a supermarket and said, "なるほど". In the late…
Most businesses don't buy disconnected systems on purpose. They arrive one tool at a time. You start with a spreadsheet. You add a CRM because the s…
Originally published on Loop & Retry — field notes on building LLM agents that survive production. The token bill is the cost you can see, becau…
Of all the places I have worked, the one that changed how I think about running things was not a technology company. It was an airline. I spent part…
Starting from certain builds of GBase 8a 9.5.3, a new event‑driven method for replacing failed data nodes is available. Unlike the traditional redis…
So this weekend I spent $200 solving a $2 problem. Not because I was careless. Not because the system was broken in the old way. It happened because…
What We Set Out to Understand In 2026, the dominant narrative around AI failure still points at the same suspects: outdated infrastructure, a shorta…
This guide covers three core areas of daily GBase 8a operations: tracking data loads and collecting error details, configuring audit logs and analys…
Your runbooks are out of date. I don't know your team, but I'd bet money on it. Most teams write runbooks once, in a panic after an outage, and then…
When loading large volumes into a gbase database cluster, stability matters far more than a single peak throughput number. The same 500 GB data set…
Node crashes, connection storms, shard anomalies, and resource overloads are the most frequent disruptions in a gbase database cluster. This guide d…
When moving data between GBase 8a clusters, stability trumps speed. Failures often stem not from the commands themselves but from inconsistent forma…
The real challenge in a gbase database schema change isn't writing the DDL — it's uncovering every object that depends on the table before you hit “…
DDL changes in a gbase database often fail not because of syntax errors, but because of hidden object dependencies, long-running transactions, lock…
Недавно я завершил программу COO в Stratoplan. Год назад, когда я принимал решение идти на обучение, у меня уже был опыт разработчика, Team Lead, CT…
The Principle of Least Privilege: Operational Speed's Security Cost While developing a production ERP, delayed shipment reports were always a headac…
While recently discussing operational loads with a colleague, I heard them say, "I see the alerts, but I just don't feel like checking them anymore.…
The hard part of incidents isn't surviving them. It's making them count. Most teams handle the acute phase reasonably well. Something breaks, people…
In 2025, the question stopped being "can we automate this?" and became "why are we still paying someone to configure it?" The honest answer, for mos…