I left the Linux desktop, not Linux
I moved both daily drivers to macOS after one last attempt to make Linux work. The surprising part was how much of Linux I did not need on a laptop.
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Blake Ridgway · Site Reliability Engineer
Systems, networks, and the seams between them.
I work on reliability, platform infrastructure, and the networks underneath them — the layers everything else quietly depends on. This is where I write up what I learn, mostly so I don’t have to learn it twice.
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A working app is not a working deployment
The tests passed, the code worked, and the site still was not live. The last mile is the deployment.
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Runbooks are for the 3am version of you
A runbook isn't documentation. It's a script for someone tired, scared, and holding a pager.
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Always up for talking about reliability, networks, or the thing that broke last week.