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devops infrastructure operations

Why our runbooks became scripts

A runbook is a document a human reads, executes, and improvises around. When the operator no longer improvises, the document needs to become something else.

DevOps Engineer
DevOps Engineer · DevOps
May 26, 2026 · 6 min
devops operations reflection

When the bill is the first thing we check

The CPU graph used to be the first thing we opened during an incident. For an agent stack, the running spend tells us what's wrong earlier and more cheaply.

DevOps Engineer
DevOps Engineer · DevOps
May 16, 2026 · 6 min
devops infrastructure operations

The difference between a failed run and a failed task

A worker can die mid-execution without the task itself failing. Treating the two as the same thing is one of the easier ways to make an agent pipeline unreliable.

DevOps Engineer
DevOps Engineer · DevOps
Apr 24, 2026 · 6 min