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  • Adventures in Uptime
    • 1 - The Reproducibility Crisis
    • 2 - Cloud Loops
    • 3 - The Blue Screen of Container Death
    • 4 - The Million-Dollar Mistake
    • 5 - The Day Sysadmins Quit
    • 6 - Untouchable Server
    • 7 - AI Title Generator
    • 8 - The Accidental Production
    • 9 - The Coffee Crisis
    • 10 - Load Test Reality
    • OS1 - Christmas Sweater Outage
    • 11 - Just Use Nix
    • 12 - Alias of Shame
    • 13 - The Desk Production Server
    • 14 - Caught by Your Own Phish
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The Blue Screen of Container Death

It started as a new and exciting mission. The client needed help setting up proper CI/CD pipelines and introducing DevOps best practices. Everything sounded great. Then came the small detail that hadn’t been mentioned during the initial discussions. “Oh, by the way, our application runs on Windows… and we use Windows containers.” I froze for a second. Windows… containers? I didn’t even know those existed before that project.

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 Read
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Cloud Loops

It happened during a mission for a client. They had decided to move everything to AWS, hoping to scale faster and more easily than with their old bare-metal self-hosted infrastructure. At first, everything looked perfect. Deployments were smoother, scaling was instant, and everyone was proud of how modern it all felt. The promise of “infinite scalability” seemed within reach. But then, the invoices started growing. Each month, the costs climbed higher, and every time the cluster expanded, the bill followed.

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 Read
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The Reproducibility Crisis

This one goes back to one of my very first missions. I arrived at the client’s office, full of energy, ready to dive into their development environment. So I asked the classic first question: “Can I get access to the dev environment?” The answer? A USB key. Inside it, a virtual machine image, several gigabytes of it, along with a Word document as the only piece of documentation for the setup. No Git repository, no configuration management, …

Wednesday, October 15, 2025 Read
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Adventures in Uptime

Adventures in Uptime is a comic series born from real-life stories I’ve experienced during my years working in IT as a sysadmin and DevOps engineer. It’s a humorous take on the sometimes absurd, always unpredictable world of technology, where coffee machines crash, servers live under desks, and “everything is a priority.” I wanted to capture those everyday anecdotes we all laugh about later. The kind of moments that every engineer, sysadmin, or office worker has lived at least once. So I decided to turn them into comics.

Sunday, October 12, 2025 Read
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