Welcome
The problem with a brand-new blog is getting the first post out. Breaking the seal, so to speak. So to force myself through that, I figured I’d give a quick introduction. I like hats. I’m Rich Lafferty, a site reliability engineer in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, across the harbour from Halifax. I’ve been doing this kind of thing since 1999 under various titles like “sysadmin”, “ops engineer”, and now “SRE”, and spent a bit of time in a management role as well before returning to an engineering role at PagerDuty where I am currently a staff engineer....