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I'm more partial to the summer interns hypothesis.
Rule one of having interns and retaining your sanity is that interns get their own branch to muck around in.
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For a later season. This was one of my favorite scenes on the show.
Completely unrelated, but I find myself reading your post about Argentinian steaks at least once a year. It's perfect. https://idlewords.com/2006/04/argentina_on_two_steaks_a_day....
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> It took a while to return, so he used the time to explain how, in an ordinary setup ... This one was visible from such a great distance, it's a wonder neither of you spotted it as it happened! I love your post — reminds me of BOFH :)
A true BOFH would have either disposed of any witness or made them the culprit.
Ok, this is too many high-profile, apparently unrelated outages in the last month to be completely a coincidence. Hypotheses: 1) software complexity is escalating over time, and logically will continue to until something makes it stop. It has now reached the point where even large companies cannot maintain high reliability. 2) internet volume is continually increasing over time, and periodically we hit a point where…
The more you hire, the more plentiful and diverse your bugs will be.
It stands out now because the stars aligned. But theses issues have been coming and going for years in patternless form.
Ok, this is too many high-profile, apparently unrelated outages in the last month to be completely a coincidence. Hypotheses: 1) software complexity is escalating over time, and logically will continue to until something makes it stop. It has now reached the point where even large companies cannot maintain high reliability. 2) internet volume is continually increasing over time, and periodically we hit a point where…
I think people are too accustomed now to high availability/uptime nowadays. I started using the Internet in the mid 90s. Stuff used to break all the time back in those days. Now I can’t remember the last time I couldn’t reach a website because it has been Slashdotted.
That, or this is all related to high profile sites being required to install some additional level of infrastructure which is being required in secret by an organization like the NSA.
Both theories require a fairly thick tin foil hat, but honestly.. I have a hard time believing that it's just random downtime.
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For a later season. This was one of my favorite scenes on the show.
Completely unrelated, but I find myself reading your post about Argentinian steaks at least once a year. It's perfect. https://idlewords.com/2006/04/argentina_on_two_steaks_a_day....
The food lived up to the mental image I had after reading the post.
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I'm more partial to the summer interns hypothesis.
Pretending that junior engineers is the problem, is the problem.
Ok, this is too many high-profile, apparently unrelated outages in the last month to be completely a coincidence. Hypotheses: 1) software complexity is escalating over time, and logically will continue to until something makes it stop. It has now reached the point where even large companies cannot maintain high reliability. 2) internet volume is continually increasing over time, and periodically we hit a point where…
Ok, this is too many high-profile, apparently unrelated outages in the last month to be completely a coincidence. Hypotheses: 1) software complexity is escalating over time, and logically will continue to until something makes it stop. It has now reached the point where even large companies cannot maintain high reliability. 2) internet volume is continually increasing over time, and periodically we hit a point where…