Albizia Notes

Personal blog about self-hosting, Linux and daily engineering notes.

Shipping less, finishing more

April 1, 2026 · 4 min read

The fastest way to improve reliability is to reduce moving parts. Over the last month I focused on making small, reversible changes and writing down every operational decision.

The result is boring deploys, easier rollback and better sleep. Boring is a feature.

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Minimal observability checklist

March 27, 2026 · 3 min read

Before adding shiny tooling, make sure you have three basics: health checks, structured logs and a single dashboard with key service signals.

Most incidents are solved with this baseline and clear runbooks.

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