Frigga Blogs

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 …

On November 18, 2025, a configuration file error inside Cloudflare's Bot Management system caused a four-hour global outage. Spotify went down. ChatGPT went down. Discord, Uber, Canva, Coinbase, and  over 22 major platforms  reported widespread fa…

I want to start with something honest: the first time I heard "platform engineering" in a serious business conversation, my instinct was that it was a rebranding exercise. DevOps had matured, the consultants needed a new story, and here it w…

I magine this. Your team ships a new feature on a Thursday afternoon. The PR looked clean. Tests passed. Nothing in the review flagged anything unusual. By Friday morning, someone on the internet has found an exposed API endpoint that returns user dat…