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Field Note · Jul 18, 2026 · Colten Anderson

Audit your suppression graveyard before a live page dies in it

Silences, downtimes, and maintenance windows get created for good reasons and never revisited. Here are the enumeration commands and three cleanup flags that find the ones that have quietly gone bad.
Analysis · Jun 26, 2026 · Colten Anderson

You don't have five reliability problems, you have one loop

Flapping autoscalers, retry storms, the on-call death spiral, SLOs that quietly rot. They're the same handful of feedback structures wearing different hats. Here's how to spot which loop you're feeding before you patch the symptom again.