Practical notes from delivery work: engineering, clients, and running software.
Upgrades work best with tests and a plan: stage changes, run CI, deploy gradually, and keep rollback ready.…
Good incident response is mostly communication: confirm impact, assign an owner, share updates, and write a short post-incident…
A simple weekly routine reduces incidents: review errors, update dependencies safely, keep backups tested, and ship small changes.…
Discovery is short, structured, and outcome-driven: confirm goals, map constraints, identify unknowns, and propose a safe first slice.
A weekly update should show progress, risks, and next steps. If the client can’t see momentum, they won’t…
Assume network failure. Use idempotency keys, retry with backoff, and log correlation IDs so you can trace what…
What good documentation looks like
Docs should answer: what it does, how to run it, how to deploy it, and where it breaks. Anything else…
CI/CD basics that prevent bad deploys
Automate tests, keep builds fast, ship small, and make rollback easy. CI/CD isn’t a luxury, it’s a seatbelt.
How to choose a maintenance retainer
Pick a retainer that matches your risk tolerance: response times, patch cadence, and a visible backlog of ongoing improvements.