Mike Preston.
SRE. I keep things running. Mostly Python and Bash, some Go when it earns its keep, JS/TS when I have to. I write about the ops side of software — runbooks, SLOs, on-call, and the small tools that make 3 AM less awful. Read what I think, see what I've made, or send mail.
- 2026-10-23 Nobody Owns Your Infrastructure: The Case for a Fractional Senior 8 min
- 2026-10-20 The Error Budget Is a Confession 3 min
- 2026-10-09 The Cloud Bill Is a Design Document: Reading Your Architecture in the Invoice 10 min
- 2026-10-05 Your CI Runner Said privileged: false. It Was Still Root. 8 min
~ Rewriting an internal alerting pipeline in Python. Debugging some issues in someone's vibe coded app. Reading 'The unincorporated war'.