Daniel Westgaard

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Developer with a passion for building and development - currently building Riftmap, https://riftmap.dev

Oslo, NorwayJoined April 2026

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DWDaniel Westgaardriftmap.hashnode.dev6d ago · 14 min read

Your senior engineer just left. Your bus factor was measuring the wrong thing.

It is three weeks after the goodbye lunch. The staff engineer who had owned half your platform for six years is gone, the Slack handle greyed out, the laptop returned. And now there is a change that h

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DWDaniel Westgaardriftmap.hashnode.devJun 15 · 11 min read

A CVE just hit your base image. Your scanner won't tell you which repos to fix.

In January 2026, CVE-2026-0861 landed in glibc. An integer overflow in the memalign family, rated high, present in every glibc from 2.30 to 2.42. Which is to say: present in debian:bookworm-slim, and

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DWDaniel Westgaardriftmap.hashnode.devJun 14 · 12 min read

Your senior engineer just gave notice. Most of what they knew was in the repos all along.

Tribal knowledge is two different things wearing one name. The half everyone panics about losing was declared in your Terraform, your Dockerfiles, and your CI config the whole time. It usually starts

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DWDaniel Westgaardriftmap.hashnode.devJun 12 · 11 min read

GitLab Orbit maps your whole SDLC. It still can't tell you what an infrastructure change will break.

GitLab Orbit is an excellent symbol-and-SDLC graph. It is also the clearest illustration yet of the one layer that kind of graph cannot reach: the infrastructure dependencies running between your repo

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DWDaniel Westgaardriftmap.hashnode.devJun 10 · 10 min read

Is Backstage worth it? The real question is whether anyone will use it

The "is Backstage worth it" debate is always about cost: how many engineers, how many months, how much it runs per developer. The person who runs Backstage at Spotify will tell you that's not where it

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Your senior engineer just left. Your bus factor was measuring the wrong thing.

A CVE just hit your base image. Your scanner won't tell you which repos to fix.

Your senior engineer just gave notice. Most of what they knew was in the repos all along.

GitLab Orbit maps your whole SDLC. It still can't tell you what an infrastructure change will break.

Is Backstage worth it? The real question is whether anyone will use it

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Daniel Westgaard's blogs

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Your senior engineer just left. Your bus factor was measuring the wrong thing.

A CVE just hit your base image. Your scanner won't tell you which repos to fix.

Your senior engineer just gave notice. Most of what they knew was in the repos all along.

GitLab Orbit maps your whole SDLC. It still can't tell you what an infrastructure change will break.

Is Backstage worth it? The real question is whether anyone will use it