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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Message Replay Topic Cleanup: Retire Historical Streams After Recovery Windows Close
Retire historical replay topics after recovery windows close by checking audit needs, consumer rebuild paths, schemas, and replay runbooks.
Warehouse Dashboard Certification Cleanup: Remove Trust Badges From Orphaned Reports
Remove certification badges from orphaned warehouse dashboards after checking lineage, metric ownership, subscriptions, and replacement reports.
Database Extension Cleanup: Remove Unused Plugins After Features Move
Remove unused database extensions only after checking dependent types, functions, indexes, migrations, imports, and managed-service settings.
Database Collation Cleanup: Retire Legacy Sort Rules After Locale Changes
Retire legacy database collations after locale changes by proving sort behavior, index dependencies, and user-visible ordering first.
Kubernetes Registry Credential Cleanup: Remove Pull Secrets After Workload Identity Moves
Find imagePullSecrets and registry credentials that survived a workload identity migration, then retire them without breaking image pulls.
Incident Role Cleanup: Remove Response Positions That No Longer Get Used
Remove incident response roles nobody fills anymore while preserving ownership for communications, decisions, recovery, and follow-up.
Data Pipeline Alert Cleanup: Remove Freshness Pages After Ownership Moves
Retire stale data freshness alerts after pipeline ownership changes without hiding broken exports, dashboards, or model inputs.
Support Escalation Path Cleanup: Retire Queues After Product Areas Move
Retire stale support escalation queues after product ownership changes without losing urgent customer handoffs or fallback paths.
Developer Notification Mention Cleanup: Remove Auto-Mentions After Ownership Changes
Remove stale automatic mentions after ownership changes while preserving review, incident, and customer escalation signals.
Release Note Audience Cleanup: Stop Publishing Channels Nobody Reads
Stop publishing release notes to audiences that no longer act on them while preserving the channels that still carry customer and launch context.
Kubernetes SnapshotClass Cleanup: Remove Defaults After Backup Policies Change
Retire stale Kubernetes SnapshotClasses and default snapshot policies with restore evidence, storage ownership, and backup-policy guardrails.
Kubernetes Sidecar Injector Cleanup: Retire Webhooks After Mesh Migration
Retire stale sidecar injector webhooks after a mesh migration by proving pod mutation, namespace labels, and rollback paths first.