Tagged: incidents

4 articles

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What stalled Salesforce for ten hours?

One internal login service saturated and a global platform queued behind it. The September outage, read as a briefing on shared dependencies.

#saturation#dependencies#incidents

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What does the incident history say?

The postmortem folder is the most honest architecture document an organization owns. How we read a year of incidents before we read a single diagram.

#reviews#incidents#evidence

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What did 2025's public incidents agree on?

A grid, a cloud, and everything between them. The year-end read of the incidents that published enough detail to learn from.

#incidents#reliability#dependencies

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What does a black start teach a software architect?

In April, the Iberian grid went dark and was rebuilt generator by generator in a day. The restart discipline is one most software estates have never priced.

#reliability#recovery#incidents