Managers Have Been Vibe Coding All Along
Everyone’s been talking about vibe coding lately. I’ve been doing it myself. two projects. and . It’s the kind of work where you don’t analyze, architect, or overthink. You star...
Articles tagged with Incident Management
Incident management guides on production response, escalation, coordination, postmortems, and learning systematically from failure.
Balancing Act of Reliability
Once something is in production, you are no longer just building software. You are also keeping it alive. That sounds obvious, but teams forget it all the time. We get excited a...
Operational Skills Needed
Over the years, I've interviewed many candidates. One crucial skill that often gets overlooked is operational reflexes during oncalls. Surprisingly, few companies test for this,...
Update Statements on Production
Executing update statements on a production database is always a big challenge. It’s one of those tasks that looks deceptively simple until something breaks in ways you didn’t i...
Engineering Roles and Responsibilities
Engineering roles exist whether you define them or not. In some teams, ownership is explicit. People know who drives incident management, who keeps an eye on risk, who pushes on...
Essential Engineering Principles
A principle is only worth writing down if a team can point to it midargument and it settles the thing. Otherwise it is a poster on the wall. The ones below map to arguments ever...
Addressing Technical Debt
A field needs to be added, a rule needs to change, or a customer bug needs a quick fix, and on paper the work looks small enough to finish in a day. Then someone points out that...
Service Overload Strategies
Service overload happens a lot. If you haven't seen one, count yourself lucky. The first time I watched it take a system down, I realized how serious it’s to get the basics righ...
Promoting Learnings in Incidents
Incidents are the negative consequences of an action that fails to produce the expected outcome. For instance, code might be deployed to production to add a new feature or impro...
Buggy Code on Production, Survived
Areca is the name of the billing engine I am working on for Turk Telekom. Funny enough, it is also the name of the flowers we bought to freshen the office. We wanted the office...