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Paying Down Technical Debt

At the end of 2025, I executed a personal rm -rf on my digital footprint. It wasn’t a catastrophic failure, but a necessary maintenance window. Over the years, my digital life had accumulated too much legacy code—outdated posts, deprecated ideas, and unmaintained projects. This clutter was creating "toil"—manual, repetitive cognitive load that didn't add long-term value.

So, I decided to clear the cache. This reset is my way of paying down technical debt to improve system stability and performance. By archiving the old, I’m freeing up capacity for what actually matters: intentional growth, deeper thinking, and a focus on reliability over sheer feature velocity.

Observability & Future State

In the world of SRE, hope is not a strategy. We rely on observability to understand complex systems, and automation to scale our efforts. My goal for this blog is similar: to move beyond "reactive firefighting" in learning and career, towards a more proactive, resilient approach to engineering.

I plan to explore:

  • Designing for Reliability – How we build systems (and habits) that can withstand failure and recover gracefully.
  • Eliminating Toil – Using automation and AI not just to do more, but to do better work with less friction.
  • The "Why" Behind the "How" – Looking past the shiny new tools to understand the architectural trade-offs and first principles.
  • Continuous Improvement – Treating knowledge like a CI/CD pipeline: small, frequent updates are better than big, risky deployments.

This aligns with my handle, dogitect. Just as a loyal watchdog protects the home, an SRE protects the system's integrity. I see this space as a log of my journey in safeguarding reliability, performance, and sanity in an increasingly chaotic tech landscape.

I can’t promise Five Nines (99.999%) of uptime for brilliant insights, but I aim for high availability of honest, thoughtful content. Welcome to the new version—deployed and monitoring.