I build small systems that stay up. By day I keep a fleet of ingestion pipelines honest; the rest of the time I write about the unglamorous parts of infrastructure — the ones that only show up in the third year of operating something.
Latest posts
- Faking Signal in Noisy Metrics
- Three Weeks of Maintaining
- Cron Scheduling Gotchas
- A Boring Code Review Checklist
Currently
Right now I am writing a collection of runbooks for the small server room I maintain, and slowly turning a decade of incident notes into something a colleague could actually use at 3 a.m. The current state of things lives on the now page; the tools behind it are on the projects page.
Elsewhere
Occasional notes on Mastodon, code on GitHub. The blog has an RSS feed: /feed.xml.