“Jimmy unplugged the wrong cable”

Ok, and the Microsoft outage yesterday?

The nifty thing about stories is that they don't have to be about something directly to trigger strong feelings in your crowd or listeners.

When we are dealing with the FCC, grounding all flights and radio failures in open bands, you can drive a lot of changes.

There are a lot of pesky ESP32s out there, right? Did your company choose to go with the Espressif platform? You know, the hackable SDR one that crashes planes and clubs baby seals and tries to sell your grandparents bad financial scams?

This week alone, I've seen multiple servers fail due to hardware issues: multiple bad fans, a failed hard drive, bad network optics. Another server got bumped while an adjacent server was being worked on and lost time sync, leading to software instability/crashes. We don't have a large fleet, but we do have more servers than employees, and issues add up. We don't need any help with instability, entropy has us covered, thank you very much.

Two major completely unrelated outages, 2 days in a row?