Tagged: reliability

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On the outage that came back ninety-six minutes later

GitHub went down twice on October 7, ten minutes each time. The second incident's own status update called it a reoccurrence, which is the word that separates a mitigation from a fix.

#incidents#delivery#reliability

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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

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In praise of boring deploys

The most sophisticated thing a delivery pipeline can be is uninteresting. On boredom as an engineering achievement with a bill of materials.

#delivery#deploys#reliability