Degraded mode

I’ve been applying patches lately. Not to the operating system, nor the load balancer. To myself.

Sometimes you drift into degraded performance without even noticing, until something - or someone - triggers an alert. And then you have to check the logs, restart a few processes, clear some space.

There’s not always a scheduled downtime. Sometimes maintenance has to be hot, with traffic coming in all the same. But you do what you can.

I’ve disabled some background services, and I’m monitoring the load. There’s no magic fix, but some tweaks help. A little less noise, a little more pause.

I don’t know when this scheduled task will finish, or whether I’ll return with improved performance. But I’m still here, doing uptime, even if not everything is visible from the outside.

Thanks for sticking around.