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When does caching make it worse?
A cache is a bet that the past predicts the present. Four ways the bet goes wrong, and the questions that price it before you place it.
#scaling#caching#reliability
Tagged: reliability
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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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How deep does your dependency graph go?
On June 12 a Google Cloud failure took down Cloudflare services, which took down their customers. Three levels of transitivity, one afternoon. A briefing.
#dependencies#reliability#cloud
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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