One of our servers recently experienced an issue in that its disk usage was consistently growing to illogical, unmanageable proportions. This would trigger an OpsGenie alert and wake me up, so in a groggy state I'd delete some extraneous log files (we log a lot), promise myself to look into it tomorrow, and go back...

Every company has a Judgement Day. Once in a while the peer reviews will roll in, the managers will require a self-evaluation, and you will be Judged. No matter what you do you’ll be assigned a rating, a number, a metric, and your job will be given a score out of ten or out of four. For a long time I’ve felt that...