Hey Loverboy, Don’t be Heartbroken: Agility Offers Levity and Lessons in ‘The Incremental Approach’

Hey, it’s Friday, folks! Queue the confetti!!!

If you don’t already have a skip in your step, I highly recommend adding some music to your current situation. And if you happen to stumble upon a terrestrial ‘80s rock station or Spotify playlist, maybe you’ll get lucky and score some Loverboy.

As those Canadian crooners have maintained for almost a quarter of a century, everybody’s working for the weekend…

Of course, “working stiff” anthems aside, Murphy’s Law is also a song on repeat, particularly in the digital world. We’ve all heard the macabre pipe organ play when a “503: Service Unavailable” message appears on screen where a website homepage should.

Why on Friday? And why does stuff invariably hit the fan at 4 PM, just as Happy Hour starts calling your name?

That’s the central premise of a fictional yet highly relatable blog series from Joel Varty, CTO at Agility CMS. It’s called “The Incremental Approach,” and across four snappy installments, it weaves a sordid tale of haywire and hope – and how a leaked press release turned a Friday afternoon into a ring of fire (hats off to the OG loverboy, Johnny Cash).

I won’t give too much away, but this engaging series reminded me of the many lessons we learn along the way, and how there’s no replacement for real-world experience. For those of us responsible for the uptime of high-availability website workloads, “game day” testing our infrastructure for unexpected traffic spikes, outages, and other scenarios is essential. 

But there are always things we can’t see or prepare for – even with the best runbooks and failovers in place. For those situations, we need human assets. Seasoned leadership. Teams that are ready to think on their feet and bring unconventional ideas to the table.

As Loverboy might say, the trusted people who have a piece of your heart. 

If your Friday is dragging, inject it with a little fun! This story has everything you want: drama, intrigue, Next.js. All the trappings of a world gone mad, and how a headless CMS – and its intrepid team – saves the day.

Tapping his signature humor, Joel traverses his own playlist of hits, from how a CDN can turn a sad song into a happy one, how running code at the edge can rock the room, and how incremental steps can rewrite the lyrics and take a whole new tune to the top of the charts. 

You can read the series here:

• Agility CMS: “The Incremental Approach” – Part 1 
• Agility CMS: “The Incremental Approach” – Part 2 
• Agility CMS: “The Incremental Approach” – Part 3 
• Agility CMS: “The Incremental Approach” – Part 4

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