Observability Was Part of the Handover
We weren't building dashboards because the platform was failing. We were building them so the team taking ownership wouldn't need us to understand what the platform was doing.
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We Planned to Test Disaster Recovery. We Couldn’t Get That Far.
We had high availability, tested backups and a disaster recovery plan. Then we tried to prove the complete service could actually recover.
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A pipeline can look healthy while an important engineering control quietly isn't operating as expected.
Read article →We Didn’t Want to Become Another Consultancy
How our definition of success changed from delivering technology to building engineering capability.
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