The SpellOps library.
Guides, postmortems, documentation and case studies from the teams running the world's most consequential magic. Mostly safe to read aloud.
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- Guide
The 12-Factor Spell
Best practices for cloud-native incantations, from config in the environment to disposable familiars.
- Deployments
- Best practices
Sep 22, 2026 · 14 min read · Albus Kubernetes
- Blog
Kubernetes for Covens
Why your familiar probably does not need its own pod, and the three cases where it absolutely does.
- Familiars
- Architecture
Sep 15, 2026 · 8 min read · Priya Hollowmere
- Case study
Postmortem: The Great Frog Incident
How an improperly scoped transformation spell affected 42,000 customers, and what we changed afterwards.
- Incidents
- Postmortems
Sep 2, 2026 · 18 min read · Morgana Stacktrace
- Guide
A Practical Guide to Multi-Realm Architecture
Strategies for scaling beyond the mortal plane without losing write consistency in the afterlife.
- Architecture
- Realms
Aug 28, 2026 · 22 min read · Albus Kubernetes
- Blog
Secrets Management Without Cursed Vaults
Modern approaches to magical credential management, and why the skull-shaped box was never a good idea.
- Security
- Secrets
Aug 19, 2026 · 9 min read · Gerald Doomwhistle
- Webinar
Canary Casting in Practice
A live walkthrough of rolling a weather enchantment out to one village at a time. Recorded; mild drizzle.
- Deployments
Aug 12, 2026 · 45 min watch · Samantha Fireball
- Docs
Spell API Reference v4
Every endpoint, parameter and permitted hand gesture for the SpellOps API.
- API
- Reference
Aug 5, 2026 · 30 min read · SpellOps Docs
- Case study
HexCorp: Twenty Deploys a Day
How HexCorp retired its full-moon release train and reassigned the goat.
- Deployments
- Enterprise
Jul 29, 2026 · 11 min read · Elric Moonwhisper
- Blog
SLOs for Familiars That Ignore You
Defining service levels for workers that are, technically, cats.
- Familiars
- Observability
Jul 21, 2026 · 7 min read · Priya Hollowmere
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