Debugging Hetzner: Uncovering failures with powerstat, sensors, and dmidecode

Re:Debugging Hetzner: Uncovering failures with powerstat, se... by esafak on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @09:22AM (#43102435)

It does help, because major version updates are more likely to cause breakage than minor ones, so you benefit if you wait for a few minor version updates. That is not to say minor versions can't introduce bugs.

Windows is a well-known example; people used to wait for a service pack or two before upgrading.

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Re:Debugging Hetzner: Uncovering failures with powerstat, se... by ajmurmann on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @09:29AM (#43102487)

We could even wait for a patch version or the minor being out a certain amount of time. For a major I'd wait even longer and potentially for a second patch.

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Re:Debugging Hetzner: Uncovering failures with powerstat, se... by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @09:31AM (#43102511)

And then they went towards a more evergreen update strategy, causing some major outages when some releases caused issues.

I mean evergreen releases make sense imo, as the overhead of maintaining older versions for a long time is huge, but you need to have canary releases, monitoring, and gradual rollout plans; for something like Windows, this should be done with a lot of care. Even a 1% release rate will affect hundreds of thousands if not millions of systems.

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