04 / Service
Cloud and operations
Infrastructure small enough to understand.
Hosting decisions get made once and then defended for years. We would rather pick something modest you can reason about, and write down the exit plan on the same page as the setup.
The standard we hold
If a deployment cannot be reversed in ten minutes by someone who did not build it, it is not finished.
What we monitor
Response time, error rate, queue depth and the age of the last successful backup. Anything else is a nice graph.