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Why I Expose Incidents on a Personal Site

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Reliability is part of the portfolio

If I claim I care about engineering quality, availability should be visible. A status page makes that claim measurable.

What I track

  • Service health summaries
  • Incident timelines
  • Basic system metrics

Why this matters

A static portfolio often hides operational thinking. By showing uptime and incidents, I can discuss tradeoffs around monitoring, rollback strategy, and blast radius during interviews.

Cost and complexity

I intentionally kept the dashboard lightweight and static-friendly. The key is signaling engineering intent without introducing unnecessary operational burden.

In short, transparency builds trust faster than polished screenshots.