Ops & support industry questions, pay, benefits and experience · ZIWM
Public Ops & support industry questions, pay and benefits, career topics, and experience posts.
Public Ops & support industry questions, pay and benefits, career topics, and experience posts.
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DNS cutovers always sound simpler in the planning meeting than they feel during the actual window. Change the record, wait for propagation, watch traffic move. In practice, one cached resolver, one forgotten subdomain, …
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Alert fatigue does not start when there are too many alerts. It starts when the team stops trusting them. I have seen a pretty dashboard still fail the on-call person because every warning had the same urgency. Disk at …
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The migration looked small on paper: add a few columns, backfill old records, then switch the application to read the new shape. The risk was that the table was hot all day and the old worker code would still be running…
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Most on-call pages are not Kubernetes being mysterious. A lot of the time it is a config change, a secret that rotated, a node under disk pressure, or a service talking to the wrong dependency. My quick order is logs fi…