We Pay Engineers to Cut Our Infra Bill
One engineer at Rootly added lifecycle policies to our ECR repositories. 95% of them had no cleanup policy. Container image storage was …
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Your Small PR Rule Won't Survive AI
For two years, we enforced a strict small-PR culture at Rootly . Stacked PRs, atomic changes, never more than a couple hundred lines. The …
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Two Mornings a Day
I haven’t slept a normal night in over four years. Somehow, I feel better than I used to. When I started Rootly , my sleep broke. US …
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Watts, Water, and Carbon: What Your AI Prompts Actually Cost
Every time you ask an AI to summarize a document, generate an image, or write code, a GPU somewhere lights up — and a power meter ticks …
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One More Prompt: The Dopamine Trap of Agentic Coding
It’s 2:47 AM on a Tuesday. I’m not debugging a production outage. There’s no deadline. I’m just watching Claude Code …
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From Writing Code to Orchestrating Agents
My dev workflow has changed more in early 2026 than in the previous five years. I went from writing code in VS Code, to pair-programming …
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