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Cloud & Infra 6 min

What Your Health Check Does Not Check

Four dependencies stopped one at a time on a running stack. Two of the outages left the health check, the status code an...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 22 Aug

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Cloud & Infra 6 min

What a Database Backup Does Not Contain

The media on one real system is larger than the dump that is supposed to protect it — 66 MB across 2,765 files against a...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 22 Aug

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Cloud & Infra 7 min

How to Prove Your Backup Actually Restores

A real 156-table database dumped, loaded into a throwaway server and compared. The backup was fine. The check reported 6...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 22 Aug

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Cloud & Infra 5 min

What One Server Actually Runs

This publication — the live site, a full staging copy, an error tracker and its own CI runner — is four cores and 16 GB...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 21 Aug