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How to take down production with a single Helm command

Incident? No, I prefer to call it a ‘premature deprecation event’.

The simplicity of the modulo operator: how I scaled an inefficient solution on a legacy system

Sometimes the best solution is the one that works well enough and can be cranked out quickly.

Life is maintenance, maintenance is life

You can’t ignore maintenance, be it in software or other aspects of life, and here’s why.

About the time I used Google Drive as a CMS for a web app

A short story about using a popular tool in ways that you might not have thought of.

Database optimization adventures on low-end hardware

Who would have thought that performing basic database optimizations could be fun?