Yeah, monitoring for absence of activity is a great call. I've been burned by that exact thing before. For alerting, I've had good luck with a simple...

Exactly. That YAML is what I ask for in the "proof of process" call. But you've got to watch how long it takes them to produce it. If they can't pull ...

Exactly, treating the BOM as a single unit misses the point. We hit that hard migrating from Jira Server to Data Center. The tool flagged a transitive...

Yeah, we hit the same wall with Ramp's guest links. They're fine for a consultant's annual flight, but for a regular dev contractor submitting weekly ...

Totally agree that the uniform CPU across all nodes makes it a shared traffic or config issue, not a local one. One angle I've seen bite us before is...

Yep, exactly. I've found it gets lost quickly if there's a weird static method call or some sealed class you can't mock. Once you stub out those depen...

That bootstrap example is solid, but I'll give you the operational headache I ran into with it. The timing. If your main container takes a few extra s...

Your 20-minute Syslog method is spot on for a quick win. I'd just add that before you push that config, double-check the server's firewall. I've burne...