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Field Notes: Infrastructure & Ops
Hosting, caching, DNS, email, and the operational plumbing that keeps a site and its systems running.
What It Takes to Keep a Stadium POS System Online on Gameday
Sixty thousand phones want the same signal a payment terminal needs - satellite internet alone was never going to be the fix.
Teaching Inboxes to Recognize a Real Sender
A verified brand mark next to outgoing mail wasn't a paid certificate away - it was a mail provider away.
Cache Clears Itself the Moment Content Changes
A manual purge step works fine until the one time someone forgets it, so the deploy step does it instead.
HTTP Headers, Read Properly
A live header audit - a CSP not naming its own origins.
The Purge That Only Ran Manually
A cache-purge workflow passed every run without ever actually firing.
The Cloudflare 7003 Diagnosis
A silent deploy failure - a routing error, a bad secret, an exposed token.