Frigga Blogs

Somebody asks how order creation works. You open the order service and start reading. POST /orders → OrderController.create() → OrderService.submit() → orders table → publish("order.created") And that's where the trail stops. Not bec…

A database gets slow. Not down, just slow enough that queries start timing out. The service in front of it retries. So does the service in front of that one. And the client. Nobody coordinated this, they are all just doing the sensible thing, whic…

There's a category of outage that makes you doubt your monitoring. Error rate is through the roof. Requests are timing out. And every panel you open looks fine. CPU is low. Memory is low. The database is up, responding, barely working at all. …

Every other failure in production arrives unannounced. A dependency falls over, a config change does something unexpected, traffic goes somewhere nobody modelled. Certificate expiry is not like that. The date is printed on the certificate. It has be…

Ask a founder what their engineering team needs and you'll usually get an answer about outages. Faster detection. Better alerting. Something that helps when things go wrong at two in the morning. That's fair. Outages are visible, they…

Someone builds a working version over a weekend and shows it round on Monday. It does about 60% of what the tool you were going to pay for does. The room gets a little excited. Two engineers, six weeks, and you own it. That's the pitch, and the …

The hard part of joining a team isn't the code. It's that you don't know where anything is, and every question you have is one somebody else could answer in about four seconds. So you either interrupt them, or you spend forty minutes fin…