Bash Scripting Habits That Prevent 3 a.m. Pages
Five small habits — strict mode, quoting, logging and more — that make shell scripts fail loudly and safely instead of silently.
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Cloud
Cutting Cloud Costs Without Cutting Corners
Where cloud money usually goes, and the low-risk changes — right-sizing, schedules and storage tiers — that reduce the bill without hurting reliability.
Security
Setting Up MFA Everywhere: A Practical Rollout Plan
Multi-factor authentication is the single most effective control against account takeover. Here is a phased plan that avoids locking people out.
SAP
Understanding SAP HANA Memory: A Beginner’s Guide
How SAP HANA uses memory, what the allocation limit means, and the monitoring views to check before memory becomes an outage.
Research
What Post-Incident Reviews Teach Us About Reliability
Why blameless post-incident reviews surface better fixes than root-cause hunts, and a simple template for running them.
Technology
Git for Infrastructure Engineers: The Commands That Matter
You don’t need to master every Git feature to manage infrastructure as code. These are the commands I use every day, and why.
Security
Logging That Actually Helps During an Incident
Most logs are written for developers, not responders. Five changes that make logs genuinely useful when something is on fire.
Cloud
Terraform State: Keeping It Safe and Shared
Why Terraform state is the most sensitive file in your infrastructure repo, and how to store, lock and protect it properly.