Project Incubation
Small ideas for infrastructure or product, carried to a working prototype, with a named keeper and notes to match
Logbook open
Small things, well kept
Lychape tends operations and small experiments as a keeper tends a lamp: each system watched over, each change written in the log.
A small, practical studio for infrastructure, reliability and product experiments. The work is shown in full, the trade-offs are written down, and services are looked after once they launch.
Explore projects→lychape — ops
$projects --list
→ 4 tracks, each at concept stage
$log --tail
→ every change written down
$notes --visibility
→ public
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Project tracks
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Service areas
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Working principles
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Project notes
About Lychape
A small team with a long memory, and a sharper sense of what is worth building and keeping
Innovation is not a banner.
It is work shipped, then tended.
Lychape began as Fengteng, then became Leakei. The name has changed; the habit at the bench has not: build small tools, keep them running, learn in the open.
Hanfeng still leads the organisation, and would sooner ship a working system than polish a brand.
Corn keeps the core team in step, above all in the quiet work of maintenance and day-to-day reliability.
Contributors join through particular projects: code, documentation, operating notes, small refinements to an interface, steadier deployments.
~ about.yml
Name: Lychape Innovations
Type: operations
Lineage: Fengteng → Leakei → Lychape
President: Hanfeng
Deputy: Corn
Services: 3
Focus: [infrastructure, reliability]
What We Build, What We Keep
Lychape has no wish to pass for a large agency. It is a lamplit workshop that keeps its own pace, turning out useful systems, working notes and services made to be looked after.
Operations Support
Steadier deployment, monitoring, recovery and routine care for services already in use
Technical Notes
What was tried, what broke, what shipped and what ought to change next, all written down
Principles at the Bench
How Lychape keeps its work of use, rather than for show
Open Collaboration
Incident reports laid open, runbooks shared, and no knowledge locked in one person's head
Continuous Learning
A quiet review after every incident, so each failure becomes a page others can learn from
Quality Standards
Monitoring, alerts and deployment pipelines set to catch a fault early, ideally before anyone using the service feels it
Steady Innovation
Infrastructure improved a step at a time, each step tested with care before the next
Work in Hand
The tracks under way, each with its own purpose, its own phase and someone to keep it
DeployConcept
SwiftdockDeployment experiments for smaller services, in pursuit of releases that repeat cleanly and roll back safely
ManageConcept
LynxPilotA control-plane concept: one place to track servers, services, access notes and maintenance tasks
MonitorConcept
OwlsightMonitoring and alerting experiments that prefer one clear signal to a crowded dashboard
ProtectConcept
PangolinBackup and recovery notes for services that want protection of the plain, dependable kind