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Answering the operational questions engineers get wrong under pressure
Client-side browser tools for platform engineers.
Twenty-eight browser tools, each answering one question that has a correct answer written down in a specification and that most engineers get wrong anyway: what no-cache actually means, whether a liveness probe will kill a slow-starting pod, which nginx location block wins. No account, no backend, no telemetry: every tool is a pure function in the tab and the whole input state travels in the URL fragment.
What is in it
- The problem — what goes unanswered without it, and who notices first.
- Why the obvious alternative falls short — stated plainly, including where it is the better choice.
- How it works — the method, not a feature list.
- Concrete use cases — with console output quoted from the repository, never reconstructed.
- The methodology behind any number it emits — every term shown, so the figure survives a question.
- What it deliberately does not do — the section most papers leave out.
Part of the Platform & SRE theme. The tool it describes runs in your browser at https://tools.fabiocicerchia.it/.
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