Building calm infrastructure
Reliable systems should reduce cognitive load, not move it from machines to people. Calm infrastructure makes its state visible, limits the number of ways a change can surprise you, and leaves a clear recovery path.
Notes from systems I build, operate, break, and repair.
Reliable systems should reduce cognitive load, not move it from machines to people. Calm infrastructure makes its state visible, limits the number of ways a change can surprise you, and leaves a clear recovery path.
A homelab is a safe place to discover how many assumptions live between a working VM and a recoverable service.