…failure mode design (ensuring tracing cannot cause outages) and organizational adoption strategy (ensuring complete service coverage through both technical enforcement and process). These are the most common points of failure in distributed…
…It's not lost on me that you might be reading this because you were affected by Verizon's widespread and lengthy outage in January. While every carrier suffers from service outages…
…It's not lost on me that you might be reading this because you were affected by Verizon's widespread and lengthy outage in January. While every carrier suffers from service outages…
…It's not lost on me that you might be reading this because you were affected by Verizon's widespread and lengthy outage in January and you're only now getting around…
Microsoft has officially documented a widespread service degradation affecting the message transport pipeline for Exchange Online enterprise environments. The global incident, tracked under ID EX1331830, causes temporary…
Recently we rebuilt infrastructure from backups while setting up a new environment. Part of the idea was also just seeing how recovery would actually go in a real disaster situation and what kind of hidden problems would…
Working in IT, it’s insane to me how much a compotent manager or director that actually knows how to deal with corporate executives versus the ones that are just yes-men can completely change the trajectory of an IT depa…
…A new project hopes to save them Read more A series of patches and extensions like Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI), BGPsec, and RPKI-based Route Origin Authorization (ROA) have been layered…
…Define your condition (row count or boolean) and your evaluation schedule. Add your notification channels, give your alert a clear name, and click Save . For Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pipelines, you can…
…Small infrastructure services made the NAS feel central DNS and remote access stopped needing dedicated machines The bigger surprise was how well the DXP4800 Pro fit into the less glamorous parts of…
…I didn’t believe them and kept checking Downdetector to confirm the outage. To me, the ISP was the obvious culprit. However, the ‘Evil ISP’ mindset actually stopped me from fixing the…
…in the United Arab Emirates and indirectly damaged a third data center in Bahrain, causing major power outages across the Middle East and damaging critical infrastructure. Weeks later, Iranian state media announced…
…A problem at cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike sidelined banks, hospitals, and airlines around the world, and an outage at Amazon Web Services took down a large swath of the internet, from Reddit to…