Infrastructure
The boring, reliable parts that make everything else possible.
Field notes on hosting, DNS, monitoring, backups, and the foundational technology that nobody talks about until it breaks.
DNS is plumbing. Treat it that way.
When email stops, when the site goes down, when SSO mysteriously fails — there's a better-than-even chance the root cause is a DNS record nobody is paying attention to.
February 25, 20263 min readMonitoring you'll actually look at
Most monitoring projects fail the same way: every metric, no priorities, no signal. The fix is fewer alerts, ruthlessly tuned.
October 13, 20253 min readBackups that actually restore
The script broke 11 months ago. The daily success email kept arriving. The backup file is 4 bytes. We've seen this exact thing more than once.
May 31, 20253 min readThe case for boring technology
Boring tech has a quiet superpower: when something breaks at 2 AM, somebody else has already hit your problem and written down the fix.
January 16, 20253 min read