You're going to have outages in production. They're inevitable. The question is how to best minimize outages, both their frequency and duration. Common wi...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21023181

Sharing some lessons I learned from 10 years/millions of users in production. I’ll be in the comments if anyone has any questions!

I hope this series will be useful to the self-hosted and small web crowds—tips for tools to pick and the basics of server management.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Well, apologies for being bluntly critical. I can offer a few constructive tips to help with writing about technical topics:

    • Try starting with a simple topic flow: topic -> synopsis/purpose of why you’re writing -> background -> observations -> point<>counterpoint loop to elaborate on purpose -> closing
    • Stay away from asserting your point in the title unless you’re showing definitive proof of something
    • Find ways to speak to who may find your writing useful towards the beginning. “If you have a similar problem like X…”, “People who use X may find…”, or “Anyone having similar X experience may find…”. Something like that.
    • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      17 days ago

      I can offer some constructive tips to you as well: dont speak for all of us.

      I liked the article. I didn’t interpret it as “everyone must do what I say”. It was simply a viewpoint from a person on the internet. That is what a blog is.

      The complexity of tech stacks have increased enormously in the last 10 years, and it’s only sane to see what tradeoffs we are making to be able to scale easily. Perhaps it’s not worth the trouble for 90% of us. If we follow best practice from cloud providers without thinking for ourselves, we will not learn to think for ourselves either.

      So let’s do that. Let’s think, wrote blogs, discuss, and allow for discussions. Don’t shut people down.