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Ben Krüger
2 months ago
Early morning in the server room. The hum of machines is oddly calming. Physical hardware check complete. Sometimes you need to touch the metal to understand the cloud. #datacenter #infrastructure #earlybird
Ben Krüger
3 months ago
Team offsite in the countryside. No laptops rule - just whiteboards and discussion. Planned our entire Q1 infrastructure roadmap. Nature retreat worked wonders for strategic thinking. #offsite #nature #strategy
Ben Krüger
22 days ago
Morning standup in the kitchen area. DevOps team is small but mighty. Everyone knows their systems inside out. Cross-training session planned for the new containers setup. #devops #team #standup
Ben Krüger
1 month ago
Friday afternoon, office mostly empty, perfect time for maintenance. Applied all pending patches across 50 servers. Scripted the whole thing - finished before the sun set. #maintenance #automation #friday
Ben Krüger
2 months ago
Deploying from a hammock in the backyard. GitOps means I just merge a PR and ArgoCD handles the rest. Nature and automation - perfect combination. Zero-touch deployments are beautiful. #gitops #nature #automation
Ben Krüger
2 months ago
Open plan office, headphones on, terraforming modules. Creating reusable components for the team. DRY principles apply to infrastructure too. The module registry is growing nicely. #terraform #modules #productivity
Ben Krüger
25 days ago
Traffic delay but the mobile hotspot works. Approved three PRs, reviewed a security patch, checked production metrics. The cloud follows you everywhere - for better or worse! #mobile #cloud #productivity
Ben Krüger
3 months ago
Commute home, thinking about the Kubernetes upgrade path. Three clusters, zero downtime requirement. The plan is coming together in my head. Tomorrow's whiteboard session will be productive. #kubernetes #planning #commute
Ben Krüger
1 month ago
Standing desk, multiple monitors, Grafana dashboards everywhere. Watching the metrics during a traffic spike. Auto-scaling kicked in perfectly. The infrastructure held. Satisfying! #monitoring #autoscaling #office
Ben Krüger
3 months ago
Office war room during the outage. Five engineers, three whiteboards, one mission. Root cause found: cascading failure from a single pod. Post-mortem scheduled. Team handled it like pros. #incident #teamwork #sre