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7 articles
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The June availability report keeps the transparency section, admits a month-long deliberate pause, and reports a missed 50% target with no new date attached. More of this, everywhere.
#github#availability#transparency
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A short editorial on the incident review's only real deliverable, occasioned by a season of reading them.
#postmortems#process#editorial
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A winter and spring of incidents, one editorial. Config is the trigger, routing is the amplifier, concentration is the blast radius.
#outages#resilience#infrastructure#editorial
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May 7 and 8, multiple cooling units down at once, one availability zone thermally offline. The dependency map did the rest.
#aws#outage#us-east-1#datacenters
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An editorial in praise of the documents this winter keeps producing, and the tell that separates real ones from theater.
#postmortems#incidents#writing
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A February 20 routing incident took BYOIP customers off the map. The cause was an automated policy change, which is the year's refrain.
#cloudflare#bgp#outage#networking
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A February disclosure, a production change initiated by an AI system, and the oldest safeguard in engineering applied to the newest actor.
#aws#ai#incidents#operations
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