Code, Noted· 1 min read
On the monthly availability report
GitHub's July report lists eight incidents, and seven of them were changes and expiries rather than code. A note on the institution of publishing your own ledger.
#reliability#incidents#institutions
Tagged: incidents
4 articles
· 3 min read
Ten hours without CI
GitHub Actions failed for ten hours and forty-two minutes on August 6. Read as an instrument, the outage measured every pipeline that runs through it.
#delivery#incidents#ci
· 1 min read
On reading other people's postmortems
The industry's best literature is filed under incident reports. A short note on reading them for structure rather than schadenfreude.
#incidents#learning
· 3 min read
The update that stopped the world, read as architecture
Nearly a year after the CrowdStrike outage grounded flights and closed hospitals, the postmortems have settled. The architectural reading has not.
#reliability#blast-radius#incidents