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Re:Railway Security Disclosure on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:11AM (#50191087)
Railway was not honest about the reason for their last big outage.
Re:Google cloud outage takes down banks on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @12:19AM (#50176041)
Yep their managed redis is somehow always out
Haha I hope this is true, it fits my experience on Azure. 0 machines available. If someone from GitHub wants to chime in.
Re:The August 17 outage, and the work ahead on Friday August 21, 2026 @04:32AM (#49385369)
I don't understand your comment. A google data center is much larger than an ntp server, but it's obviously not infinitely larger. As you know, if it was infinite capacity, then there would be no need for load balancing or load shedding.

And of course, load shedding low priority traffic is still a partial outage, it's just a less bad outage than load shedding high priority traffic. It does not fix lack of capacity, but it significantly lessens the negative effects of it.

Re:Google's HTTP/2 codec slows Envoy on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @11:54AM (#49184634)
So tired of these AI generated articles.
Re:Job queues are deceptively tricky on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @10:57PM (#48929872)
Major lesson from when I worked on Google Search indexing is that queues have a lot of hidden complexity and can make your outages much longer than they need to be. We had a big project to get rid of a bunch of queues by just scaling up our synchronous backends and making them faster.
Would be nice if the timeline matched up with the text of the blog post (missing "HackerOne provides disclosure guidance").
Re:We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput on Saturday July 11, 2026 @11:58AM (#48873164)
Interesting. We run pgbouncer via kubernetes so it was straightforward to make multiple pgbouncer processes on one machine. Also straightforward to get them running on multiple machines, which helps because we run on Azure and they like to cause rolling outages across our fleet via VM maintenance...
Re:Postgres locks do not scale on Friday July 10, 2026 @07:18PM (#48866591)
Don't reboot the db during your next outage.
Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @04:08PM (#48213389)
It's highly unlikely that GCP banning their account without telling them is true, but GCP is probably not going to go public with the real reason.
Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @04:05PM (#48213350)
Yup...
We run 1000s of machines in Azure. It's garbage. Very few features work. Nodes are always having strange issues, especially on the networking side. And the worst part is that Azure support has 0 interest in actually debugging things. We just got out of an outage today caused by the insanely slow SSDs that they attach to their postgres dbs by default.
> At some point, you will have many teams. And one of them _will not_ be able to validate and accept some upgrade. Maybe a regression causes something only they use to break. Now the entire org is held hostage by the version needs of one team. Yes, this happens at slightly larger orgs. I've seen it many times.

The alternative of every service being on their own version of libraries and never updating is worse.

Re:EmacsConf 2025 on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @06:25PM (#46128337)
Big shoutout to Amin and Sacha for keeping this going!
Re:Microsoft Azure Outage on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @04:11PM (#45752407)
Front Door is not good.
Re:I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years – DBOS on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @02:24PM (#45186248)
What's the most difficult part of distributed stream processing?
Re:Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @02:56PM (#44738166)
It was low. I got a bump to 90k that year, then 130k when I jumped companies, which I thought was a mind boggling amount. Do entry level devs even get out of bed for $130k these days?
Re:Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @11:16AM (#44735342)
My first programming job in SF paid $60k/year 10 years ago. I'd like to thank big tech for driving salaries up.
Re:Personal aviation is about to get interesting on Saturday July 26, 2025 @11:54PM (#44698815)
On the flip side, my baby likes the small loud airplanes. He points at them and says "oooh!"
Re:There is no memory safety without thread safety on Friday July 25, 2025 @05:36AM (#44681326)
Hi Chad!
I was vegan for 7 years, one of my vegan friends had the opinion that human hospitals should be banned and only animal hospitals should be allowed.
Re:Most RESTful APIs Aren't RESTful on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @09:33PM (#44516371)
Infra teams like it, app devs don't like it.
Re:Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++ on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @07:41AM (#43914418)
We did that at Dropbox in Python for a while. Though they switched to async after I left.
At Google, they found that engineers L5 and above got more work done with RTO, and engineers at L4 and below got significantly less work done. WFH is great but it doesn't work for fresh engineers (who are often the most gung-ho about it as well).
We use Python to generate these configs at my work. Ends up working out pretty well. I previously worked on the biggest deployment of gcl (the inspiration for KCL, Jsonnet) at Google and it was a giant nightmare and the cause of many outages.
Re:Google to buy Wiz for $32B on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @02:39PM (#43403129)
Nobody thought Instagram and WhatsApp were good acquisitions at the time.
Re:Zero-Downtime Kubernetes Deployments on AWS with EKS on Monday March 10, 2025 @06:47PM (#43327001)
By health check, do you mean the kubernetes liveness check? Does that make kube try to kill or restart your container?
> When using Cloudflare Workers as an API server, I have experienced requests that would “fail silently” and leave a “hanging connection”, with no error thrown, no log emitted, and a frontend that is just loading. Honestly, no idea what’s up with this.

Yikes, these sorts of errors are so hard to debug. Especially if you don't have a real server to log into to get pcaps.

Re:Yoke Is Cool on Thursday March 06, 2025 @01:26PM (#43283397)
Reminds me of gcl (yikes).
Re:Things we've learned about building successful products on Thursday March 06, 2025 @12:20PM (#43282676)
The idea that engineers at Google don't get rich is not based on reality.

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