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Most teams do not have a rollback. They have a hope that they will improvise one when something breaks. The data on how that goes is stark. In the 2024 DORA State of DevOps report, elite teams restore service after a failed deployment in…

The database migration is the one step in your deploy that you cannot simply roll back. A bad release of application code is reversible, because you redeploy the previous build. A schema change mutates shared state, and once it has rewritten a t…

Most engineering teams are a little afraid of their own deploy button. Not the junior engineers specifically, and not the nervous ones. The whole team, quietly, treats shipping to production as something to be timed, scheduled, and survived …

Working across AWS, GCP, and Azure means encountering cloud setups in various states of maturity. The ones that cause the most pain during incidents, audits, or team transitions are almost always missing the same things. Not complex things. Foundati…

At some point, every startup routes its production alerts into Slack. It makes sense at the time. The team is already there. The integration takes ten minutes. The alert fires and lands in a channel everyone can see. It feels like a complete solutio…

The question of whether a startup needs SRE comes up a lot in engineering conversations, usually framed as a choice between two competing approaches. It is not a choice. DevOps and SRE are not alternatives. DevOps is a cultural and operational philoso…