Three days before the morning this post describes, I could not have told you what a CI runner was. Then, one morning, I woke up to a green pipeline and a message from my own infrastructure: the new version of my trading bot had tested, built, and deployed itself to production ove...
Everyone agrees backups matter. Almost nobody tests them. The uncomfortable truth of that gap: an untested backup is not a backup, it is a hope with a filename.
The day I moved my bot's broker gateway from a tmux session to a proper systemd service, I created the most educational outage of the whole project, and the scariest part is how good everything looked while it was broken.
Today I tagged a release of my trading bot, watched the pipeline march through lint, test, and build, all green, and then watched the deploy stage fail.