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How do they keep a pile of shit afloat, though? Do they build log monitors and trigger restarts when shit dies?


The trick is to eat the right stuff so shit floats by itself.


Basically, yes. We use Kubernetes and it has that shit built in. If the software is too crappy you will be forced to switch it off and do it manually, tho. And when you are not doing anything else anymore you will have succesfully tansitioned from software engineer to SRE.




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