infrastructure specialist · cloud operations
Running cloud.
Writing down what it teaches.
I'm Joe Frixon. I manage cloud infrastructure for a living — the incidents, the cost curves, the automation, the 3 a.m. pages. This site is where I keep the field notes: what broke, what it cost, and what changed afterwards.
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all notes →Infrastructure as code best practices, learned the hard way
A field guide to running infrastructure as code in production: state, drift, review, and the practices that separate a codebase from a pile of YAML.
The day the region didn't fail over
We ran a full region-evacuation drill and found out our runbook assumed things nobody had checked in two years. What broke, and what we changed.
Runbooks people actually read
Nobody reads a runbook at 3 a.m. They skim it, panicking, in a terminal half the width it was written for. Design for that reader.