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13 Months Sober
The idea of sobriety is now boring to me.
Oct 20 • 
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The AI SRE Startup Landscape
It's hot. It's raising a lot of money. And the promise is compelling: Put the machines on-call. Here's an (updating) list of AI SRE tools I'm tracking…
Aug 1 • 
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On Band and Business
Every day during the summer, a group of 165 young performers wake up in a high school gym on air mattresses.
May 26 • 
Robert Ross
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Six Months Sober
I don't quite crave alcohol six months in, but at times it does feel like an ex-girlfriend you lived so much life with.
Mar 10 • 
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Microsoft and my tinfoil journey
Either Microsoft support is wildly incompetent or there's a large scale fraud operation going on.
Nov 16, 2024 • 
Robert Ross
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Three new on-call providers emerge in a week. What gives?
There's something in the water.
Mar 8, 2024 • 
Robert Ross
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The alerting tool ecosystem is so far behind it hurts – and I want to fix it.
"Why hasn't PagerDuty done this?"
Sep 20, 2023 • 
Robert Ross
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Your codebase is a Jenga tower
Play your blocks wisely.
Mar 6, 2023 • 
Robert Ross
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The Thought Drop
The Thought Drop
Dropping some thoughts from my own mind.

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