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That’s not accurate. As with any incident response there were a number of theories of the cause we were working in parallel. The feature file failure was one identified as potentia…

There’s lots of things we did while we were trying to track down and debug the root cause that didn’t make it into the post. Sorry the WARP takedown impacted you. As I said in a co…

Team has a good sense, typically. In this case, the names of the columns in the Bot Management feature table seemed sensitive. The person who included that in the master document w…

* published less than 12 hours from when the incident began. Proud of the team for pulling together everything so quickly and clearly.

Next time open your dev console in your window and look at how much is going on in the background.

We incorrectly thought at the time it was attack traffic coming in via WARP into LHR. In reality it was just that the failures started showing up there first because of how the bad…

Chicken burrito from Coyo Taco in Lisbon. I am not proud of this. It’s worse than ordering from Chipotle. But there are no Chipotle’s in Lisbon… yet.

Well… we have a culture of transparency we take seriously. I spent 3 years in law school that many times over my career have seemed like wastes but days like today prove useful. I …

Can attest: not a single LLM used. Couldn’t if I tried. Old school. And not entirely proud of that.

That’s correct.

Because we initially thought it was an attack. And then when we figured it out we didn’t have a way to insert a good file into the queue. And then we needed to reboot processes on …

We don’t know. Suspect it may just have been a big uptick in load and a failure of its underlying infrastructure to scale up.

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That definitely is one not-wrong conclusion.

Blog run by the engineering team. I wouldn’t even know how to veto a post if I wanted to. Not in our DNA.

I’m not going anywhere anytime soon.

Free customers are served from the nearest location where we have capacity. If we’re capacity constrained then free customers will be the first to be rerouted to another facility w…

I agree with Kenton’s aside.

We’re in Munich, pretty close, and Lisbon, which is lovely. Unlikely Austria any time soon.

Had no idea there was a patent. Even if we had, think we’d have risked it.

If it were merely marketing spend for customer acquisition, I bet the ROI on the lava lamp wall in SF has been 100,000x. This isn’t hard to figure out.

Actually, it’s because we believe innovation is easier the further you are from HQ. And Portugal is wonderful. I’m spending about 4 months of the year there with the team who hail …