2018 Retrospective: What I Built, Broke, and Learned
2018 Retrospective: What I Built, Broke, and Learned

2018 Retrospective: What I Built, Broke, and Learned

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Shiv Bade
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December 31, 2018
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2018 was intense.
🔧 What I built: - Multiple microservices now production-grade on Kubernetes - Prototyped GraphQL gateway for mobile-facing API - Adopted contract testing in CI pipeline
🧨 What I broke: - Missed timeout configuration led to cascading failures - Alert fatigue from poorly tuned thresholds
📚 What I learned: - Infra as code maturity improves debugging - Design-for-observability pays dividends
Onward to 2019!