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Practical walkthroughs on disaster recovery, infrastructure automation, and using AI to solve real IT problems.
How to Create a Disaster Recovery Runbook (Step-by-Step Guide)
Learn how to build an effective disaster recovery runbook from scratch — with real resource IDs, real commands, and real contacts. Not theoretical documentation, but procedures your team can actually execute under pressure.
Vibe Coding Kafka Disaster Recovery — How AI Saved Me Months of Work
How I used AI-assisted vibe coding to build a disaster recovery automation tool for 26 Kafka clusters — with zero prior Kafka experience. AI coding tools turned a months-long project into weeks.
I Vibe Coded a Full DR Automation Framework — Here's How It Works
A deep dive into the DR automation framework I built using AI coding tools to manage disaster recovery across 26 Kafka/ZooKeeper clusters spanning 4 AWS accounts. From automated health checks to circuit breaker patterns.
How to Run a DR Tabletop Exercise (Facilitation Guide)
A step-by-step facilitation guide with two ready-to-use scenarios — total site loss and ransomware — including timed inject timelines, the four questions to ask at every runbook step, and a post-exercise action framework.
Ransomware Hit. What Now? (Step-by-Step Incident Response Guide)
What to do in the first 15 minutes of a ransomware attack, what NOT to do, the backup question that determines everything, clean room recovery, and how to never be in this situation again.
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