https://ryantodd.dev/blog Notes on AI, operational automation, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering. en-us rmtodd618@gmail.com (Ryan Todd) rmtodd618@gmail.com (Ryan Todd) Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://ryantodd.dev/blog/the-tool-couldnt-tell-me-if-it-was-working https://ryantodd.dev/blog/the-tool-couldnt-tell-me-if-it-was-working A small scheduled Lambda emailed me a report every evening for three months, and nothing I had shipped could say whether it worked. Fixing that surfaced the same failures I see in production systems: config drift between package and deploy, retention that deletes the record, jobs that fail by not running, and metrics measured against the wrong baseline. Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT rmtodd618@gmail.com (Ryan Todd) sreobservabilityawslambdaside-projects