The On-Call Engineer's Checklist for Verifying AI-Generated Code After It Ships
AI-generated code fails in ways your monitoring wasn't built to catch.
Solveig Thrane
Contributing Editor
Solveig Thrane
A former systems architect with roots in Scandinavian telecom infrastructure, Solveig has spent over two decades writing and consulting on observability, distributed tracing, and the operational patterns that separate resilient systems from fragile ones. Her columns blend technical rigor with a pragmatic view of what teams can realistically instrument and maintain.
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How Teams Decide Between Rolling Back and Patching Forward
Teams that pre-decide rollback versus patch strategies recover faster than those who don't.
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Incident Management Examples From Real Production Outages
The same old failure modes keep breaking production, now with AI stacked on top.
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Multivariate Anomaly Detection Across Service Telemetry
Catch cascade failures by correlating signals across services, not monitoring each one alone.
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What a Good MTTR Benchmark Looks Like for SaaS Teams
Segment your MTTR by severity and deploy cadence to benchmark against what actually matters.
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Reducing Mean Time to Resolution with Automated Diagnosis
Automated diagnosis shrinks the diagnostic gap that slows incident resolution.
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What Observability Means in Software Delivery Pipelines
A green build proves nothing about how code behaves in production.
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SLO Burn Rate Alerts Compared to Threshold Alerts
Burn rate alerts page you only when service reliability actually erodes, not when metrics twitch.
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Why CI Passing Is Not a Deployment Safety Signal
Pre-merge testing catches regressions, not production reality.
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Smoke Testing in Production After Deployment
Catch broken deployments in production before real users do, not after.
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Production Verification Gates in a GitHub Actions Workflow
Catch production failures that staging never surfaces by gating deploys on real-world verification.
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Regression Testing in Software Testing Explained
Why every code change risks breaking something else, and how to catch it.
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Runbook Example for a Database Connection Exhaustion Incident
Distinguish three root causes of connection pool exhaustion to reach the right fix faster.
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