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Engineering notes, infrastructure deep dives and practical guides from the Exotecho team.
The claim Businesses spend real money on redundant servers, replicated databases and multi-region backups, then protect the domain name that points at all of it with a shared passw...
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The claim Caching a dynamic page for one second sounds pointless. It is the single highest-leverage configuration change available to a small site, because it converts an unbounded...
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The claim If more than four conditions in your system are permitted to page a human at three in the morning, none of them will be taken seriously by March. Alert fatigue is not a d...
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The claim A published DMARC record with a policy of none protects nobody. It asks receiving mail servers to report on forged mail and then deliver it anyway. Most Canadian business...
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The claim Backup coverage is the wrong metric. The only number that describes your actual risk is the elapsed time of your last successful, verified restore into a clean environmen...
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The claim Most arguments for keeping Canadian workloads on Canadian infrastructure are legal ones. Those arguments are real but negotiable — contracts, addenda, and standard clause...
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