The Life of a Platform Engineer
An Epic Saga of Toil and Despair
🌄 Act I: The False Dawn
[Scene: 6:45 AM. Your alarm goes off. So does PagerDuty.]
- 6:46 AM – 'CRITICAL: Database replication lag > 300s'. Night shift 'fixed' it by restarting everything.
- 7:00 AM – Coffee maker broken. A dark omen.
- 7:15 AM – Slack warzone. APIs failing. Logs in 17 places.
Your First Thought: 'Maybe today will be quiet.'
Your Second Thought: 'I should buy a farm.'
🏰 Act II: The Scaling Wars
[Scene: Architecture Review. Someone says 'cloud costs.' Chaos.]
- 10:00 AM – Product: 'We're going viral in 3 days!'
- 10:05 AM – Cluster: 90% memory. Autoscaler dead since 2022.
- 10:30 AM – Scaling up? Finance says 'No.'
- 10:35 AM – Optimize services? Engineering: 'No time.'
- 10:40 AM – Praying? Everyone agrees.
Final Decision: 'Let’s see what happens.'
Result: Pain. Post-mortem titled 'Why We Should Have Scaled.'
🔥 Act III: The Debugging Abyss
[Scene: 2 PM. You’re 4 hours into an RCA for an outage that 'just happened.']
- 2:00 PM – Error: 'Unknown error.' Revolutionary.
- 2:30 PM – Logs: 'Failed to do the thing.' Deep insight.
- 3:00 PM – Race condition. Leap year + full moon.
- 3:30 PM – Fix: One-line config change.
- 4:00 PM – PR stuck: 'Can we add tests?'
RCA: Computers are hard.
Real RCA: Distributed systems = distributed suffering.
🌌 Act IV: The Midnight Horror
[Scene: 11:30 PM. PagerDuty banshee scream.]
- 11:31 PM – Alert: CPU 100%. Graph = cliff.
- 11:35 PM – 20 people on call. Half ask 'What’s happening?' Half despair.
- 12:00 AM – Issue: rogue job. Input: reality.
- 12:30 AM – Fix: Restart + rate limit.
- 12:31 AM – Vow: 'Fix properly tomorrow.' (You won’t.)
Final Thought: 'I could have been a baker.'
♾️ Act V: The Cycle Continues
- New outage. Same pain.
- New alerts. Same panic.
- New promises. Same despair.
You are a platform engineer:
Part detective. Part firefighter. Part therapist.
0% rested.
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