FireDrill GameDays at Sky Betting & Gaming
Running GameDays at SB&G and the lessons learned
11 minute read
Performance Enhancing Packages
Performance is everything in this industry, even the little wins make a big difference.
4 minute read
Being Right Is Just the Beginning
As an industry we’re obsessed with being smart. And that’s ok - good even, in the right context. But to get what we want we need to stop being the smartest person in the room and start being the most helpful in the room
7 minute read
Destigmatising Mistakes: A Game Launch Incident Review
Making a mistake can be a horrible feeling. Guilt, shame, fear and anxiety all rolled into one. So in order to try reduce this pressure, I’m sharing a recent mistake our team made.
6 minute read
It's Just a Monitoring Change
Have you ever had a seemingly innocuous change to one system affect another in a catastrophic way? If yes, you might notice a few familiar themes in this write-up. If no, then read it now, before it’s too late.
11 minute read
Zero-Downtime Kubernetes Deployments
When migrating services to shiny new cloud-native infrastructure, special care must be taken to ensure that releases that were zero-downtime continue to be so. When said service is the login system for your entire customer-facing product offering, a little extra effort is probably needed
10 minute read
Visualising Complex Systems
I recently gave a Tech Talk called “Beyond Dashboards - Visualising Complex Systems”
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"What's the worst that could happen?": A worked example of how we deal with live incidents.
This post is going to outline roughly how we make changes, and what we should do when those changes go bad. Using an incident that actually occurred as an example of how we should deal with these incidents, and how we did in that specific case.
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Rising from the Ashes
We’ve always enjoyed running incident response drills, but they were becoming stale. This post covers how we addressed the problems with our fire drills and iterated upon them
8 minute read
performance.now() Conference 2019.
Key takeaways from the 2019 performance.now() conference in Amsterdam
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