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If I had it to do againXO Ruby New Orleans 20252025-09-20
FireHydrant rebuilds would lean hard on specific infrastructure choices: the Laddertruck Rails codebase grew to 440 public API endpoints (roughly 200 more than…
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Pragmatic Incident Response: 5 lessons learned from failuresConf42 Site Reliability Engineering 20212021-09-30
Five concrete takeaways: start with small incidents and run quick retros so fixes actually happen; measure and drive down mean time to retro and track the…
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Incident Ready: Chaos Engineer Your Incident ResponseConf42 Chaos Engineering 20212021-02-25
Shows concrete experiments: a timed surprise meeting where trying to update Statuspage.io exposes lack of access in 30 seconds, and scripted breaks of staging…
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How to Build a Usable Terraform Provider in 20 hoursHashiTalks 20212021-02-17
Built live on Twitch over 10 two-hour sessions, a usable Terraform provider for Fire Hydrant reaches working status in about 20 hours and publishes to the…
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Uncovering Access, Reuse, and Sharing Characteristics of I/O-Intensive FilesFAST '202020-02-24
Analysis of Cori production logs (84M Darshan records, 52M files, ~13 PB total) uses Darshan and Lustre metadata to isolate I/O‑intensive files (>=100 GB and…
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Robert Ross (Fire Hydrant) - Spinnaker Summit 2019Spinnaker Summit 20192019-11-16
A Ruby on Rails 4.2 bug creates unbounded prepared statements in Postgres causing DB memory growth and swapping; the quick fix is a bash loop that deletes…
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