Platform Reliability & FinOpsFrom a beta request form to a TestFlight invite, with one human click
How Omnisnia CRM's iPhone closed beta turns a web request into a CRM case, a one-click approval, a TestFlight invite and a reply, safely.
Platform Reliability & FinOps
Field notes on health probes, disaster recovery, CI/CD, identity, and cloud bills.
These articles come from audits and incidents on production estates: health probes that reported healthy while the backend was broken, two SQL Server incidents where nothing crashed, a disaster-recovery workaround that never merged, a logging setting that more than quadrupled an AWS bill, a CI watchdog running on the pool it watched, what breaks when a GitHub repo moves, redirects at Azure Front Door, and cookie-free analytics and what they cost. Client names are withheld unless the client agreed to be named.
For the engineering behind the notes, see Platform Reliability & FinOps.
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Platform Reliability & FinOps
Platform Reliability & FinOpsHosting WebRTC on GKE without opening up the cluster
How we run a LiveKit SFU behind STUNner on a private GKE cluster, and the five silent failures between the internet and the media server.
Platform Reliability & FinOpsUpgrading Hugo from 0.105 to 0.167: what broke
How we moved a Hugo site across 62 minor versions: the trial build, one hard error, three deprecations, two silent breaks, and the URL diff.
Platform Reliability & FinOpsFrom a shared article to a CRM lead, without cookies
How every lead from our contact form now says which channel and articles brought it, and how a nightly job puts per-article lead counts in Omnisnia CRM.
Platform Reliability & FinOpsYour load balancer health probe may be lying
Three Azure health probe failures on one production estate, and what a probe should check so that it can tell a healthy backend from a broken one.
Platform Reliability & FinOpsGitHub's immutable OIDC subjects break cloud logins after a repo transfer or rename
Since July 15, 2026, renaming or moving a GitHub repo changes its OIDC subject claim. How to update Azure, AWS and Google Cloud trust before the move.
Platform Reliability & FinOpsCookie-free site analytics on Azure, and what it costs
How we measure traffic, Core Web Vitals, conversions and failures on our own site with Application Insights and Front Door logs, without cookies.
Platform Reliability & FinOpsAzure Front Door redirect gotchas for SEO
What we learned moving our site's redirects and cache headers into Azure Front Door Standard rules: status codes, rule order, path matching and limits.
Your CI watchdog can't live on the pool it watches
A self-hosted runner pool was down for 6 hours 38 minutes. Its watchdog ran on the same pool. What went wrong, and how to monitor CI from outside.
What breaks when you move a GitHub repo
Moving repositories between GitHub organizations without breaking CI/CD: the hidden dependencies, and the order to change them in.
Two SQL Server incidents where nothing crashed
Two SQL Server on Azure VM incidents where the engine never stopped: a backup retry storm, and log backups that quietly ended for seven databases.
The logging feedback loop that more than quadrupled an AWS bill
How S3 access logging, CloudTrail data events and GuardDuty malware scanning fed each other until one AWS account's bill went from about $1.7K to $7.8K.
DR workarounds that never merge are defects with a timer
A failover exercise hit three defects that had been found and worked around 15 months earlier. Why imported Terraform hides them, and how to fix them.