• You Bought an Apple Stand and Now You Sell Bananas Jan 8, 2026 Nobody decided to become a banana stand. It happened one exception at a time until the apples are gone and the AC is broken. #drift #stewardship #boringops #complexity #culture
• The Observability Ouroboros Jan 2, 2026 Netflix employs elite engineers to build logging infrastructure that monitors the architectural choices that created the logging problem. Most companies copy the solution without understanding the disease. #observability #complexity #cost #antipatterns
• Metrics Without Meaning Dec 30, 2025 Metrics only matter when they reflect reality. We reject dashboard theatre and brings every number back to its purpose: quieter, more predictable, more boring systems. #metrics #pillars #measurement
• It's The Humans, Stupid Dec 23, 2025 AI doesn't replace talent. It multiplies it. When everyone has the same AI, your only edge is the humans with judgment, context, and domain expertise. #ai #strategy #talent
• Corporate Amnesia: How Exciting Systems Rewrite Reality Dec 10, 2025 We fixed the chaos. Then people forgot the chaos. Then they started dismantling the fix. #boringops #culture #complexity #operations #discipline
• The On-Call Test of Platform Excitement Dec 5, 2025 One question reveals everything about your platform maturity: 'Who wants to be on-call this weekend?' #operations #culture #reliability
• The Shower That Ate Your Engineering Budget Nov 30, 2025 You threw out a $500 bathtub and ended up in a communal shower where the faucet, soap, water, and air are all billable events. The vendor didn't upsell you. You #cloud #cost #complexity
• BoringOps: How to Position Stability for a Promotion Nov 27, 2025 Stability gets ignored because it’s invisible. This is how to measure it and use it to earn a promotion. #career #efficiency #strategy
• The Chaos Anti-Patterns: When Your Ops Are Too Exciting Nov 16, 2025 Excitement is not random. It emerges from predictable dysfunction. If your team is always busy but nothing ships, you're paying operational debt interest. #operations #anti-patterns #efficiency
• BoringOps vs. DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE: The Quiet Revolution Oct 31, 2025 DevOps promised speed. SRE promised reliability. What we got was agile theater and endless reinvention. BoringOps rejects the toil and returns focus to building the business. #culture #infrastructure #efficiency
• Why Stability Is Punished: The Hidden Cost of Being Boring in Tech Sep 24, 2025 The hardest part of doing boring work is explaining why you didn't do exciting work. Stability is punished because the system rewards visible change over invisible reliability. #career #culture #incentives
• Boring Is Earned: The Six Stages of Operational Maturity. Sep 17, 2025 Every new technology must pass through six stages, from Ignition to Boring. Boring is not the end of innovation. It's the inevitable destination of mastery. #maturity #operations #discipline
• BoringOps: The Efficiency Multiplier Sep 1, 2025 Every exciting technology comes with a permanent capacity tax. Freed engineering capacity is the most valuable currency in tech. #efficiency #capacity #strategy