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Issue 9

01 Sep 2026  ·  4 min read

The migration that went too smoothly

A zero-downtime cut-over, the one check we nearly skipped, and why a boring launch day is the goal.

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What we shipped

The releases that went out this month, and the problem each one solved.

02

What broke

Incidents and near-misses, written up plainly: no blame, just the cause and the fix.

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What we'd do differently

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  1. Issue 9

    01 Sep 2026  ·  4 min

    The migration that went too smoothly

    A zero-downtime cut-over, the one check we nearly skipped, and why a boring launch day is the goal.

  2. Issue 8

    03 Aug 2026  ·  3 min

    Feature flags we forgot to delete

    Forty-one flags, nine of them older than a year, and the clean-up rule we use now.

  3. Issue 7

    01 Jul 2026  ·  4 min

    What an LLM bill teaches you about caching

    Half of one client's model spend was the same forty questions. Here is how we found them.

  4. Issue 6

    02 Jun 2026  ·  3 min

    Offline-first is a product decision

    Why the hardest part of an offline app is deciding who wins a conflict — and who gets told.