Deployment Stories
Deployments are where design intent meets live traffic, real state, and human timing. These stories cover failed rollouts, risky release processes, and the recovery patterns teams wish they had in place earlier.
6 stories
A Five-Person Startup Used Kubernetes for the Boring Parts and Built a Separate Control Plane for Everything Humans Waited On
“We were a five-person startup building a platform for browser-based applications that give each user a dedicated backend process. That meant we had two very different kinds of oper...”
How a Storage Security Policy Broke VM Provisioning Across Azure and GitHub Worldwide
“I work on cloud control-plane infrastructure that provisions virtual machines, scale sets, Kubernetes nodes, and the supporting identity and extension systems around them. One of t...”
How a Database Permissions Change Doubled a Feature File and Took Down a Global CDN for Six Hours
“We run one of the largest edge networks in the world — millions of requests per second, across hundreds of data centers in over 100 countries. Our network sits between users and th...”
How a Missing .npmignore Entry Leaked 512,000 Lines of Claude Code Source to the World
“We maintained the release pipeline for Claude Code, Anthropic's flagship AI coding CLI distributed as an npm package (@anthropic-ai/claude-code). The tool had grown rapidly to beco...”
How We Moved 200 Services off Jenkins in About 3 Months
“I owned the least glamorous part of platform engineering: keeping an aging Jenkins estate alive while the rest of the company added more services every quarter. By the time we star...”
How We Built a Production-Grade AWS Infrastructure from Scratch in 6 Weeks — as a Team of Two
“We were 14 months into building a B2B document intelligence platform for legal teams. Our entire infrastructure was a single $48/mo DigitalOcean VPS — one box, manually SSHed into,...”