Adventures in Uptime: The Desk Production Server #13
You haven't known fear until you've been asked to "just reboot a PC" and discovered it's actually a production server that has lived under a desk for years.
"Enterprise-grade infrastructure" sometimes just means a desktop tower with a "Do Not Unplug" sticky note. 😅
The full story is available on my blog: https://alexnuttinck.dev/posts/adventures-in-uptime/13-the-desk-production-server/
A communication campaign went out with the wrong email address.
The clean fix? Send a correction. The requested fix? "Can you create an alias?" The final fix? "Do it. That’s an order."
And that’s how another "Alias of Shame" was born. Sometimes infrastructure isn’t shaped by best practices, but by politics. 😅
Read this story and the previous ones here: https://alexnuttinck.dev/posts/12-alias-of-shame/
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It was supposed to be a Kubernetes demo. A simple proof of concept.
Then the client’s datacenter burned down (literally). Production was gone.
"Can we use the POC as production?" 😅
We scaled it up, locked it down, and prayed. And somehow… it worked.
Sometimes, the best disaster recovery plan is the one you never meant to deploy.
You can read this story and the previous ones here: https://alexnuttinck.dev/posts/8-the-accidental-production/
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Tried searching for a “System Administrator” job lately? Good luck finding one. 😅
Now it’s DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Platform Engineer, SRE, or... Operations Ninja.
Same work, fancier titles.
👉 Read the full story and the previous ones here: https://alexnuttinck.dev/posts/7-ai-title-generator
Manager: "Why do we need sysadmins? They do nothing all day!"
Sysadmins quit
Manager: "Why is everything on fire?!" 🔥
System administrators are the silent guardians keeping our digital world running. Their work is invisible until they're gone.
Maybe it's time we appreciate uptime before it disappears. 😅
Read the full story here: https://alexnuttinck.dev/posts/5-the-day-sysadmins-quit/
Partner: "We already bought high-end IBM Big Data servers for the project!"
Us: "Did you check the requirements first?" Partner: "...Requirements?"
Result: Beautiful, expensive, completely unusable servers. 💸
Sometimes "coordination" is the most valuable hardware you can invest in. 😅
Read the full story here: https://alexnuttinck.dev/posts/4-the-million-dollar-mistake/
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Alexandre Nuttinck