#adventuresinuptime — Public Fediverse posts
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Adventures in Uptime: The Desk Production Server #13
You haven't known fear until you've been asked to "just reboot a PC" and discovered it's actually a production server that has lived under a desk for years.
"Enterprise-grade infrastructure" sometimes just means a desktop tower with a "Do Not Unplug" sticky note. 😅
The full story is available on my blog: https://alexnuttinck.dev/posts/adventures-in-uptime/13-the-desk-production-server/
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"Scales perfectly!" he said. App crashed at 10 users. Load tests don’t lie. 😅
Read this story and the previous ones here: https://alexnuttinck.dev/posts/10-load-test-reality/
#AdventuresInUptime #LoadTesting #PerformanceTesting #DevOps #Sysadmin #Scalability #TechHumor
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It was supposed to be a Kubernetes demo. A simple proof of concept.
Then the client’s datacenter burned down (literally). Production was gone.
"Can we use the POC as production?" 😅
We scaled it up, locked it down, and prayed. And somehow… it worked.
Sometimes, the best disaster recovery plan is the one you never meant to deploy.
You can read this story and the previous ones here: https://alexnuttinck.dev/posts/8-the-accidental-production/
#AdventuresInUptime #DevOps #SysAdmin #Kubernetes #DRP #TechHumor
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Manager: "Why do we need sysadmins? They do nothing all day!"
Sysadmins quit
Manager: "Why is everything on fire?!" 🔥System administrators are the silent guardians keeping our digital world running. Their work is invisible until they're gone.
Maybe it's time we appreciate uptime before it disappears. 😅
Read the full story here: https://alexnuttinck.dev/posts/5-the-day-sysadmins-quit/