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Baris Polat
3 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
Baris Polat
3 months ago
Park bench, laptop, VPN connected. Reviewing security groups from outdoors. Found three overly permissive rules. Fixed them before my coffee got cold. Security never takes a day off. #security #remotework #nature
Baris Polat
24 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
Baris Polat
3 months 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
Baris Polat
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
Baris Polat
4 months 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
Baris Polat
1 month ago
Office at sunset, running the final migration scripts. Moving 2TB of data to the new region. Progress bar at 73%. These moments of waiting are oddly peaceful. #migration #cloud #patience
Baris Polat
2 months ago
Rooftop terrace, sunny day, capacity planning spreadsheets. Forecasting next quarter's resource needs. The numbers show we'll need 40% more compute. Budget request incoming! #capacity #planning #cloud
Baris Polat
2 months ago
Traffic jam turned into learning session. Listening to SRE audiobook. 'Hope is not a strategy' - that quote will stick with me. Every outage is a lesson waiting to be documented. #sre #learning #traffic
Baris Polat
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
Baris Polat
1 month ago
Team lunch discussing disaster recovery. Drew the failover architecture on a napkin. Sometimes the best planning happens over food. Scheduled a drill for next month. #disasterrecovery #teamwork #planning