#observability

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My Infrastructure Writes Its Own Post-Mortems While I Sleep

A trading bot ran dead for seven hours before I noticed. That failure taught me that 'process alive' and 'system healthy' are not the same sentence. Here's how I built infrastructure that heals itself, documents itself, and gets smarter every time it breaks.

May 28, 202611m read

Engineering

The Bot That Had Never Made a Dollar

Three hundred and forty tests. Ninety-five percent coverage. Five docs, a runbook, a watchdog, and a launchd plist. In three weeks it had never placed a real trade. This is what we learned when we finally pulled the data instead of writing another fix.

April 7, 20269m read