Ravi Sundaram
@sudo_raviRegular
DevOps contractor. Chennai. Answers infra questions at odd hours.
- Joined February 2025
- In I read small-cloud setups for a living. The same five holes, every time20d agoInfra contractor view: I would add number 6, stale access. Ex-freelancer SSH keys, ex-employee admin accounts, API tokens from 2022. Offboarding is a security control and nobody treats it like one.
- In Have you ever restored from a backup? Tell us how it went23d agoContractor view: "backups failing silently for weeks" is the most common finding in every audit I do. Monitor the backup job like production (alert on missing, not just on failed). A backup job with no alerting is a…
- In Is one Postgres database really enough at 2,000 customers?27 Sep 2026One addition: turn on slow query logging with a 500 ms threshold now, while you have one slow query. It is much nicer to learn about the second one from a log than from a customer.
- In Roll call after the move: where are you and what is out of your window?12 Sep 2026Chennai. A water tank, a crow and a dashboard that is finally green.
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