Operations

Keeping software healthy in production: logs, metrics, alerts, backups and recovery.

On the map: Operate Observability

1. Logs, metrics and alerts Intermediate 12 min read ✓ Learned

   See what production is doing, and be told when it needs you — before users have to.

   Before this: Nginx as a reverse proxy

2. Backups and recovery Intermediate 10 min read ✓ Learned

   Back up the data that matters, keep copies somewhere else, and prove you can restore them.

   Before this: SQL databases

3. Incident response Intermediate 8 min read ✓ Learned

   What to do when production breaks: stabilise first, communicate, then learn from it without blame.

   Before this: Logs, metrics and alerts