Frigga Blogs

It is 2:17am. An alert fires. Latency on the payments service has spiked by 300% in the last four minutes. The on-call engineer wakes up, opens their laptop, and starts piecing together what happened. They check the deployment log. A release went out …

The CI/CD market does something interesting: every tool on this list is genuinely good, and every tool has a situation where it is the wrong choice. Most comparison articles do not say that. They list features and call it a day. This one has an opinio…

Let me say the uncomfortable thing first: "Most startups that adopt Kubernetes in their first two years do not need it" . They adopt it because it signals seriousness. Because the job posting says it. Because the senior engineer they just hi…

The engineering team looks fine from the outside. Standups happen. Tickets close. Demos run. The velocity chart is not obviously catastrophic. And yet, something is off. The sprint reviews feel a little defensive. The senior engineers seem quieter tha…

DevOps was never really about tools. It was about tearing down the wall between the people who write code and the people who keep it running. That idea was genuinely transformative — and for a long time, it worked. Then something happened at scale. Te…

Every few months I end up in a conversation with an engineering leader who is either paying for something they are not using, not paying for something that would save them real time, or running a tool that made sense at ten engineers but has become a …