Industrial IT without drama

Plant IT fails quietly when ownership is unclear. The fix is not more tools — it is explicit runbooks, boring backups, and release windows that respect production.

I treat every system as something a night-shift operator might inherit at 02:00. That means dashboards that answer one question, alerts that map to a person, and rollback paths practiced before go-live.

Laravel and Django apps still need the same discipline as the network rack: versioned config, documented dependencies, and a habit of writing down what broke last time.