From iron ore mines to site reliability

My first job was keeping machines running at an iron ore mine: a mobile crushing plant, heavy earth-moving equipment and a lot of reliability data. Mean time between failures and mean time to repair were the numbers that mattered.

Years later the vocabulary is the same. The machines are servers, the plant is a fleet, and the work is still about keeping things running and learning from every failure.

This journal is where I'll keep notes and photos along the way.

date: 2026-11-09
location: Singapore