Frigga Blogs

Somebody asked me a simple question a while back: are any of our databases reachable from the public internet? I said I'd check. Then I sat there for a second realising I didn't actually know how to answer that quickly. Not because the inf…

On a lot of teams, infrastructure changes still happen the way they did five years ago. An engineer runs terraform apply from their laptop, watches the output scroll, and hopes. The cost of that shows up as drift, when the real infrastr…

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…

There is a moment that happens at a predictable point in a startup's growth. An engineer leaves the company. They were the person who set up most of the AWS infrastructure eighteen months ago. Nobody asked them to document it, because everyone ass…