Production systems for developers and startups
Ruthlessly Simple Systems
Monkeymaxxing teaches you to build, run, and recover production systems that stay easy to understand as your company grows. The lessons are free, and so are the tools.
These are not toy systems. The same simple server fleets can support billion-dollar companies. A company does not need a platform-engineering team just because it has become successful.
The free tools
Three open-source programs. Use them on as many servers as you like, with no account and no license fee.
MMX
Sets up and changes your Linux servers from your laptop. You describe the work in readable YAML files; MMX makes only the changes that are needed and shows you what it did.
MMWatchdog
Watches every server, restarts what failed, and sends an alert when it cannot fix something itself.
MMHotline
On-call software that runs on your own server. Your coding agent looks at each alert first and fixes what it is allowed to. MMHotline wakes a person only when one is needed.
Monkeymaxxing VIP
The paid membership for teams that run these tools. VIP adds what must live outside your own servers: a backup path for your alerts when MMHotline itself goes quiet, a public status page for your customers, alerts about exploited flaws in your Debian and Ubuntu packages, and support from the people who make the tools. Your coding agent answers first, from our docs, at any hour. A person from Monkeymaxxing answers by email during US business hours.
Learn the whole system
Courses
Total Systems Domination takes you through the whole method in order, from first principles to a production system that survives being destroyed.
Consulting
Matt helps your engineers build, recover, or simplify your own systems, with thirty years of experience behind each decision.