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The three-hour deploy that taught us to fear big-bang migrations
A database migration that should have taken twenty minutes, what actually went wrong, and the rollback plan that saved us.
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Build, deploy, observe and operate.
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What we check before recommending Kubernetes to a client
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Our on-call rotation before and after we started tracking MTTR
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How to build a workflow you can actually inspect
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