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In praise of beta season
An editorial on why a database beta deserves more of your attention than most general-availability launches.
#releases#databases#editorial
Tagged: editorial
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What the desk read this week
The first of an occasional micro-column, three links and the reason each earned its place.
#editorial#reading
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The mid-year scorecard
Five dispatches revisited, three verdicts upheld, one pending, one wrong in an instructive direction.
#editorial#review
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An incident review that changes nothing was theater
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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The internet keeps breaking in the same three ways
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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Dispatch zero
What this wire is for, what it will not do, and the one promise that makes the rest enforceable.
#editorial#launch