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Usually we don't like to spend time on things that don't have a direct positive impact on users but a good refactor of the backend code was long overdue.
A few bugs caught and improved performance so far; got rid of our two most expensive queries for example 😀🚀
A few bugs caught and improved performance so far; got rid of our two most expensive queries for example 😀🚀
December 19, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Usually we don't like to spend time on things that don't have a direct positive impact on users but a good refactor of the backend code was long overdue.
A few bugs caught and improved performance so far; got rid of our two most expensive queries for example 😀🚀
A few bugs caught and improved performance so far; got rid of our two most expensive queries for example 😀🚀
Looks like we'll have to look into having a second active AWS region; the price of success and having so many ec2 instances created is that sometimes a few fail 🫤
December 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Looks like we'll have to look into having a second active AWS region; the price of success and having so many ec2 instances created is that sometimes a few fail 🫤
It could have a better description but at least Claude knows about SadServers without looking it up. Take note ChatGPT 😄
December 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM
It could have a better description but at least Claude knows about SadServers without looking it up. Take note ChatGPT 😄
Hey AI, am I the lighthouse or the ship? 😅 do androids dream of electric sheep?
December 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Hey AI, am I the lighthouse or the ship? 😅 do androids dream of electric sheep?
See 6,000 sad servers served 🚀 😀
First day of #AdventOfSysadmin
First day of #AdventOfSysadmin
December 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM
See 6,000 sad servers served 🚀 😀
First day of #AdventOfSysadmin
First day of #AdventOfSysadmin
Oh no again on HN's front page 😬
December 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Oh no again on HN's front page 😬
日本はサッドサーバーを愛し、サッドサーバーは日本を愛している 🇯🇵
December 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
日本はサッドサーバーを愛し、サッドサーバーは日本を愛している 🇯🇵
SadServers uses ipinfo , an excellent tool.
Interview with its founder in the SaaS podcast at open.spotify.com/episode/50OD...
Interview with its founder in the SaaS podcast at open.spotify.com/episode/50OD...
November 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM
SadServers uses ipinfo , an excellent tool.
Interview with its founder in the SaaS podcast at open.spotify.com/episode/50OD...
Interview with its founder in the SaaS podcast at open.spotify.com/episode/50OD...
Worse than a non-technical boss is one who thinks he’s technical
November 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Worse than a non-technical boss is one who thinks he’s technical
Job interviews are going to end up with on-site only option and maybe KYC software for remote (thread suggests asking candidate to hold their ID to the camera for ex)
Scams are causing another arms race to the bottom in interviews to add to the AI one
Scams are causing another arms race to the bottom in interviews to add to the AI one
November 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Job interviews are going to end up with on-site only option and maybe KYC software for remote (thread suggests asking candidate to hold their ID to the camera for ex)
Scams are causing another arms race to the bottom in interviews to add to the AI one
Scams are causing another arms race to the bottom in interviews to add to the AI one
What application/tool would you like featured in a SadServers scenario that we don't have yet? (eg: Mongodb, Clickhouse, Traefik)
November 1, 2025 at 2:29 AM
What application/tool would you like featured in a SadServers scenario that we don't have yet? (eg: Mongodb, Clickhouse, Traefik)
Pretty crazy that after Google, the biggest traffic referrer for SadServers is not social media, LinkedIn etc but ... GitHub repositories. Street cred 💪😁
October 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Pretty crazy that after Google, the biggest traffic referrer for SadServers is not social media, LinkedIn etc but ... GitHub repositories. Street cred 💪😁
Test Your Infrastructure with Game Days docs.sadservers.com/blog/test-yo...
October 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Test Your Infrastructure with Game Days docs.sadservers.com/blog/test-yo...
Software companies need to have an internal conversation and come up with a policy or guidelines about the use of AI, otherwise it's going to end up with AI agents talking to each other with frustrated humans in the middle
September 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Software companies need to have an internal conversation and come up with a policy or guidelines about the use of AI, otherwise it's going to end up with AI agents talking to each other with frustrated humans in the middle
We've added running logs to the kubernetes playground session screen while the k8s sandbox is being created
September 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
We've added running logs to the kubernetes playground session screen while the k8s sandbox is being created
Feedback from an event done with SadServers 😀
August 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Feedback from an event done with SadServers 😀
Bengaluru 🇮🇳Cairo 🇪🇬Tokyo 🇯🇵 London 🇬🇧
August 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Bengaluru 🇮🇳Cairo 🇪🇬Tokyo 🇯🇵 London 🇬🇧
SadServers Kubernetes playgrounds (full, sandboxed k8s environments) are getting ready for launch!
Here's a session using k9s (included), what other tooling would you like to have? (eg stern...)
Here's a session using k9s (included), what other tooling would you like to have? (eg stern...)
August 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
SadServers Kubernetes playgrounds (full, sandboxed k8s environments) are getting ready for launch!
Here's a session using k9s (included), what other tooling would you like to have? (eg stern...)
Here's a session using k9s (included), what other tooling would you like to have? (eg stern...)
Multi-threaded code is hard 😅 , see the issue in this example (thankfully this was happening in the special case of our own E2E test via API we run periodically but still).
July 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Multi-threaded code is hard 😅 , see the issue in this example (thankfully this was happening in the special case of our own E2E test via API we run periodically but still).
Why oh why did it take me so long to use @metabase ?
Plus I had a hiccup during install, getting a SadServers scenario out of it 😀
Plus I had a hiccup during install, getting a SadServers scenario out of it 😀
July 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Why oh why did it take me so long to use @metabase ?
Plus I had a hiccup during install, getting a SadServers scenario out of it 😀
Plus I had a hiccup during install, getting a SadServers scenario out of it 😀
GCP outage from my point of view
June 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
GCP outage from my point of view