A specification for giving a model access to tools and data, read for what it standardises rather than for what it enables. The protocol is small and the…
Two years of read splitting, and the twelfth place that had to read the primary. Naming the two reads differently is what keeps the count knowable — twelve…
A systemd unit enabled and running for five years, consuming a gigabyte, serving a feature that was removed in 2021. Nothing alerts on a service that is working…
One table with two retention requirements, seven years apart, and no column distinguishing them. The technical work was a generated column and a backfill; the work that took…
A recurring proposal to move a service to a compiled language, costed properly rather than argued about. The performance difference is real and is irrelevant to the caller,…
An inventory of what is configured, compared against an inventory of what is actually listening. Scanning your own address space is a thing that feels excessive until it…
Financial records retained for seven years, containing personal data that may not be retained that long. Keeping the postcode district and discarding the rest is the compromise that…
A year of eight-hour certificates rather than an authorized_keys file, and the operational reality of it. The mid-incident expiry is the failure mode that theory does not predict,…