The 3am Problem: Building Systems That Don't Need You Awake
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Monitoring, alerting, and the automation mindset that changed how I work. Sleep is the metric. #ops #monitoring #architecture 3:17am. My phone buzzes. I unlock it, squinting at the brightness, and read: "ZFS pool degraded — disk 3 checksum errors increasing, scrub recommended." I look at it for fou…
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The 3am Problem: Building Systems That Don't Need You Awake