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Writing code has never been more affordable. A feature that used to take a week can now be completed in an afternoon. I use these tools myself. However, code is not a finished product the moment it exists. Someone has to review, test, deploy, understand, and potentially change it later. These costs haven’t decreased along…
When an employee leaves a company, the usual checklist covers the laptop, badge, and email account. What often gets overlooked are the things that person quietly held together: the domain registered under their personal email, the cloud account they opened with their own card, and the API key that only they know about. This is…
No one plans to leak an API key. It happens because a key is the fastest way to get something working, and the promise to “clean it up later” is rarely kept. A key is pasted into a configuration file to test something. Then, it ends up in a chat message so a colleague can…
The plugin update went live on Friday afternoon. It had worked on the developer’s laptop. Twenty minutes later, the checkout page starts throwing errors, and the team begins fixing them on the live site while customers watch. I’ve seen some version of this many times. The cause is almost never a bad developer. The problem…
I help look after an old server. More than once, its disk has filled up. Each time, we’ve found out the same way: something stops working, someone notices, and then someone logs in and finds that the disk is at 100 percent. The fix is never difficult. We just clear some logs and remove some…
A single server provides a forgiving environment. Everything lives in one place. The application, file storage, session data, and cron jobs all run on the same machine and can communicate with each other without much thought. Then, when the product gains traction and one server is no longer enough, the team adds a second and…
After chatting with a friend who also does DevOps, I revisited the Cloudflare dashboard to take another look at what’s included in the free tier. I’ve been using and recommending free Cloudflare accounts for years, primarily for domain and DNS management. This time, I was surprised by how much has been added since my last…
Nobody gets excited about backups. They’re not a feature, they don’t show up in demos, and setting them up correctly costs money and time for a problem that, on a good day, never happens. This is precisely why it’s the topic most businesses avoid until it’s too late. The pattern I keep seeing A business…