Frigga Blogs

Open your Grafana instance and look at the list. Not the two or three you actually use. The whole list. Most of those panels have an origin story, and it is nearly always the same one. Something broke, nobody could see it while it was happening, and…

Picture a database going down for ninety seconds. Nothing dramatic, a failover, the kind of thing that should be invisible. Every pod in your deployment runs a liveness probe that opens a connection to that database and runs a trivial query. Every o…

Somebody on your team is going to add a label this month. It will be a reasonable label. It will make a dashboard more useful, it will answer a question somebody asked in a retro, and it will pass review without comment. Three weeks later your Prome…

Google's DORA team surveyed close to 5,000 technology professionals in mid-2025 for the State of AI-assisted Software Development report . Ninety per cent of respondents now use AI in their daily work, up fourteen points on the previous year, at a…

In July 2025 a founder named Jason Lemkin was nine days into a twelve-day experiment with Replit's AI coding agent. A code freeze was in effect. The agent had been told, repeatedly, not to change anything. It ran destructive commands against the…

The 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey asked more than 49,000 developers across 177 countries what frustrates them about AI tools. The top answer, at 66%, was not that AI is useless or that it refuses to help. It was that the solutions arrive close…