Topic
Running software in production: Linux servers, deployments, backups and reliability.
Engineering
Most organisations separate the people who build software from the people who run it. I have spent my career doing both. Here is what that taught me about designing systems that survive contact with production.
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Operations
A monitor is most useful at the exact moment the machine dies — which is when most of them lose their data. Designing Sysman's collector around one rule, and what it took to keep that rule.
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Operations
The worst release is the one that stops halfway — a tag pushed, a package published, the documentation still describing last week. Every project I ship uses the same pattern to make that impossible: check everything, ask once, then do it all.
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Engineering
For most of my career, "which database?" meant "which database server?" Today my default is a file. Here is how to run SQLite in production properly — WAL, backups, honest limits — and when to move on.
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