Jordi Sensada Torres·Oct 12It worked after a retry. But why?Systems do not break because they are having bad days (or weeks, in some cases). If something is down, something happened. A process ran…
Akum Blaise Acha·Apr 5The 2 AM CPU Spike That Taught Me How Node.js Actually CrashesTracing a production memory leak from a CloudWatch alarm to a forgotten cron job OOM-killing itself every six hours.
Jennifer Strejevitch·Aug 13, 2024Lessons from the CrowdStrike and Eurostar Incidents: A Study in Disaster Recovery and Business…Over this summer, two major incidents significantly disrupted critical infrastructure systems worldwide. The first one was a faulty update…
Clint Byrum·Apr 12, 2024Ron Burgundy: Unlikely Hero of Blameless CultureRon Burgundy is not a role model for workplace behavior. In fact, if we were making workplace behavior training videos, he wouldn’t even be…
Kevin Rought·Feb 20, 2024Terror in the SkyThe main article is “Terror in the Sky”. Society today has many reasons why flying can be so dangerous. A few examples include being…
Clint Byrum·Oct 28, 2023Water and code: two things that burst pipes when they freezeIt’s about that time of year again. Engineers with families have had blocks of time off through December on their calendars for months by…
Yury Niño·May 25, 2020We cannot avoid human made disasters, but we can prepare for themThis is the story of how a picture became an article :) I wanted to share an illustration that I made to explain the roles involved in a…
