https://us60qz.cybergalaxy.me/Essays and field notes on infrastructure and DevOps.en https://us60qz.cybergalaxy.me/posts/secrets-management-for-small-teams.htmlhttps://us60qz.cybergalaxy.me/posts/secrets-management-for-small-teams.htmlFri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000Every codebase has one area everyone is a little afraid to touch. On our team, it was everything related to secrets management. https://us60qz.cybergalaxy.me/posts/blue-green-deploys-on-a-budget.htmlhttps://us60qz.cybergalaxy.me/posts/blue-green-deploys-on-a-budget.htmlFri, 14 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000For a long time I treated blue-green deploys as something to worry about later. Then a small change to our Ansible setup turned into a week of debugging, and "later" arrived all at once. https://us60qz.cybergalaxy.me/posts/kubernetes-is-not-a-strategy.htmlhttps://us60qz.cybergalaxy.me/posts/kubernetes-is-not-a-strategy.htmlSun, 09 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000A colleague asked me last week why our team cares so much about container image size. I gave a rambling answer, so here is the longer, more organized version. https://us60qz.cybergalaxy.me/posts/a-gentle-runbook-for-your-first-on-call-week.htmlhttps://us60qz.cybergalaxy.me/posts/a-gentle-runbook-for-your-first-on-call-week.htmlFri, 03 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000A colleague asked me last week why our team cares so much about alert fatigue. I gave a rambling answer, so here is the longer, more organized version. https://us60qz.cybergalaxy.me/posts/alerts-should-wake-you-up-for-a-reason.htmlhttps://us60qz.cybergalaxy.me/posts/alerts-should-wake-you-up-for-a-reason.htmlFri, 26 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000I've been working with Kubernetes for about 8 years now, and my opinions on secrets management have changed more than I expected. https://us60qz.cybergalaxy.me/posts/shrinking-docker-images-without-losing-your-mind.htmlhttps://us60qz.cybergalaxy.me/posts/shrinking-docker-images-without-losing-your-mind.htmlTue, 21 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000Every codebase has one area everyone is a little afraid to touch. On our team, it was everything related to autoscaling. https://us60qz.cybergalaxy.me/posts/our-ci-went-from-22-minutes-to-6-here-s-the-boring-part.htmlhttps://us60qz.cybergalaxy.me/posts/our-ci-went-from-22-minutes-to-6-here-s-the-boring-part.htmlSat, 03 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0000There is no shortage of articles about Kubernetes. Most of them cover the happy path. This one is about what happened after the happy path ended. https://us60qz.cybergalaxy.me/posts/terraform-modules-i-regret-writing.htmlhttps://us60qz.cybergalaxy.me/posts/terraform-modules-i-regret-writing.htmlMon, 29 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0000For a long time I treated CI caching as something to worry about later. Then a small change to our Terraform setup turned into a week of debugging, and "later" arrived all at once. https://us60qz.cybergalaxy.me/posts/the-dashboard-nobody-looked-at.htmlhttps://us60qz.cybergalaxy.me/posts/the-dashboard-nobody-looked-at.htmlThu, 29 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000There is no shortage of articles about Terraform. Most of them cover the happy path. This one is about what happened after the happy path ended.