Deep Boda ยท Writing https://deepboda.in/writing Notes on running production infrastructure. en-GB Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Ten API calls. Three of them were the same question. https://deepboda.in/writing/three-lakh-api-calls https://deepboda.in/writing/three-lakh-api-calls The ask was more servers. I spent a day counting instead. One screen, ten calls, one lakh opens a day, and three lakh requests that never needed to exist. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT API designArchitecturePostgresCost The night one service took everything with it https://deepboda.in/writing/one-service-took-everything https://deepboda.in/writing/one-service-took-everything A real postmortem, written the way I write them internally. One host, no isolation, a spike at market open, and every other service on the box went down with it. Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT PostmortemSREOn-callArchitecture You don't have backups. You have files. https://deepboda.in/writing/restore-time https://deepboda.in/writing/restore-time Everyone asks whether you have backups. Almost nobody asks how long a restore takes, and only one of those questions matters at 3 AM. Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT ReliabilityDisaster RecoveryAWS None of it was exciting https://deepboda.in/writing/boring-reliability https://deepboda.in/writing/boring-reliability Four years of infrastructure work. The things that genuinely moved reliability were embarrassingly boring, and the exciting ones did nothing. Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT ReliabilitySREDevOps 47 alerts. Two mattered. https://deepboda.in/writing/alert-fatigue https://deepboda.in/writing/alert-fatigue I muted a production alert last month and it was the right call. An alert that fires every night and never needs action is not monitoring. Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT SREOn-callObservability Nobody wrote this diff https://deepboda.in/writing/terraform-drift https://deepboda.in/writing/terraform-drift I ran terraform plan against production when nothing was wrong. Three things came back changed, and one of them was mine. Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT TerraformAWSIaC The job description versus the job https://deepboda.in/writing/jd-vs-job https://deepboda.in/writing/jd-vs-job I re-read my own job description last week. It describes about 20% of what I actually do. Nobody writes a JD for the other circle. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT HiringDevOpsCareer Where it actually breaks https://deepboda.in/writing/where-it-breaks https://deepboda.in/writing/where-it-breaks One request, browser to disk. Eight layers, and the specific thing that bites at each one. The expensive bugs live in the seams between them. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT DevOpsPlatformDebugging Do you actually need Kubernetes? https://deepboda.in/writing/kubernetes-ladder https://deepboda.in/writing/kubernetes-ladder Five rungs, simplest at the bottom. I run all of them in production right now. Climbing too early costs money, climbing too late costs a night. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT KubernetesAWSArchitecture