The Backup Retention That Never Was
A backup retention policy that promised 7 daily, 4 weekly, and 6 monthly copies was quietly deleting everything past eight days — and nobody noticed because the dailies always looked fine.
Postmortem
The Key That Was Never Set
A routine version bump turned up a secret key that had defaulted to a public string since February, and a log pipeline that goes quietly blind the moment you fix the thing it was complaining about.
The DNS Outage That Took Nine Days to Name
A resolver that looked fine from every angle except the one host that actually mattered, and the ACL that had been quietly eating its answers since September 10th.
The RAM Was Guilty All Along
A months-old mystery about a flaky KVM host finally gets a verdict from Memtest86+, and a backup design flaw that’s been hiding since day one gets fixed in the same week.