Zubair Alam

SRE in Berlin. From Dhaka. I write about on-call, small infrastructure, and missing home.

Berlin --:--Dhaka --:--

  1. Writing runbooks for a server run by volunteers

    What changes when nobody is paid to wake up. Short version: fewer alerts, better notes.

  2. My first on-call week in Berlin

    Three pages, two of them at 4am, one of them my own fault.

  3. Fuchka in Berlin: a field report

    I found one place. It was fine. It was not fuchka.

  4. Why I joined a server 7,000 km away

    Because #adda at 11pm Berlin time is 3am Dhaka time and somebody is always awake.

I help the mukto.net infrastructure group and write theon-call handbook. If you're an ops apprentice, ping me on IRC, whatever the time.