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Yan Zhu
19 days 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
Yan Zhu
2 months ago
Night shift at the NOC. Screens glowing, alerts quiet, systems healthy. The calm before the morning traffic. Used the time to document runbooks. Preparation beats reaction. #noc #monitoring #documentation
Yan Zhu
3 months 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
Yan Zhu
1 month 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
Yan Zhu
1 month ago
Coffee and terraform plan. The proposed changes look safe. Applied! 47 resources modified, zero downtime. Infrastructure as Code means I can review changes like any other PR. #terraform #iac #coffee
Yan Zhu
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
Yan Zhu
1 month ago
Coffee shop near the office, sketching network diagrams. The new VPC peering setup is complex but necessary. Visual thinking helps with infrastructure. Barista knows my order now. #networking #coffee #architecture
Yan Zhu
1 month 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
Yan Zhu
3 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
Yan Zhu
1 month ago
3 AM alert, grabbed coffee, fixed the issue in 20 minutes. Turned out to be a misconfigured health check. Added better monitoring to prevent future false alarms. On-call life! #oncall #monitoring #coffee
Yan Zhu
2 months ago
Morning jog, then straight to the incident review. Clear head, better analysis. The postmortem identified three improvement areas. No blame, only learning. Healthy culture matters. #postmortem #culture #sre
Yan Zhu
3 months ago
Night shift at the NOC. Screens glowing, alerts quiet, systems healthy. The calm before the morning traffic. Used the time to document runbooks. Preparation beats reaction. #noc #monitoring #documentation