unweed

Practical cleanup notes for software teams.

Practical notes on cloud costs, stale infrastructure, technical debt, databases, dependencies, and the small maintenance habits that keep production calmer.

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Feature Experiment Cleanup: Delete Old Variants After the Decision

Feature Experiment Cleanup guidance for proving whether teams can still justify old experiment variants, choosing a low-risk cleanup path, and preventing...

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Notebook Cleanup: Turn Ad Hoc Analysis Into Owned Assets

Clean up stale notebooks by separating disposable exploration from analysis that feeds decisions, reports, models, or audits.

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Release Branch Cleanup: Delete Old Branches After They Stop Mattering

Release Branch Cleanup guidance for proving whether teams can still justify stale release branches, choosing a low-risk cleanup path, and preventing...

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Automation Cleanup: Remove Scripts Nobody Understands

Retire stale scripts safely by finding callers, release dependencies, credentials, and replacement workflows before deleting automation.

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Legacy Service Cleanup: Retire Old Services One Dependency at a Time

Legacy Service Cleanup guidance for proving whether teams can still justify old services, choosing a low-risk cleanup path, and preventing repeat waste.

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Local Docker Cleanup: Keep Developer Machines From Filling Up

Local Docker Cleanup guidance for proving whether teams can still justify local containers, volumes, and images, choosing a low-risk cleanup path, and...

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Dockerfile Cleanup: Remove Old Build Stages and Packages

Clean up Dockerfiles by proving which stages, packages, and build tools still affect runtime images, tests, and deployment behavior.

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Webhook Cleanup: Remove Endpoints That No Longer Have Consumers

Retire old webhooks by checking delivery history, consumers, retry queues, and business events before disabling endpoints.

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On-Call Noise Cleanup: Reduce Pages Without Hiding Incidents

On-Call Noise Cleanup guidance for proving whether teams can still justify low-value pages, choosing a low-risk cleanup path, and preventing repeat waste.

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Data Pipeline Cleanup: Remove Jobs That No Longer Feed Decisions

Data Pipeline Cleanup guidance for proving whether teams can still justify stale data jobs, choosing a low-risk cleanup path, and preventing repeat waste.

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Firewall Rule Cleanup: Delete Old Allowlist Entries Safely

Clean up stale firewall rules by mapping real callers, allowlist owners, hit counts, and rollback paths before removing network access.

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Warehouse Table Cleanup: Reduce Analytics Storage Waste

Find stale warehouse tables, prove whether reports still use them, and reduce analytics storage waste without deleting data people still trust.