Posts tagged: cloud

💭 The Secret of the AWS Outage | The Standup - YouTube

2025-12-06T21:29:48Z

What a great campfire story Casey stumbled into. Whether any of this is true few will ever know, but its very reasonable that a race condition and a stalled job to apply configuration caused by someone who left the company 10 years ago caused an outage. I find it hilarious that they call this guy he answers, yup I still know the password, but how do I know you’re legit, I’m not just handing out the password. Casey did a stand up job telling this story.

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Another Big Cloud Outage Nov 2025

2025-11-18T18:39:00Z

Today I woke up to finding out that cloudflare hade a widespread outage. My Reader uses tailwind cdn for styles and it was down. Otherwise it was not so impactful to me and felt kike they were quick to have it up.

I’m not really researching here, just jotting thoughts down from a parking lot waiting for pickup.

It feels like we are seeing a lot of these lately. They feel much more frequent. It feels like a whole industry was sold on 9’s and reliability of big cloud that we just aren’t getting.

There’s a huge push to go back to self hosting, racking and stacking. I think this is great. I love it. I’m a big proponent for ownership and self hosting. It’s not the right move for everything and everyone, and is certainly not something to make a knee jerk reaction about in the moment of frustration.

There’s a lot of things that are just impossible to do yourself, cdn caching, edge compute, ddos protection.

These companies are not magic they are vulnerable to changes just like you and I. It really feels like more and more of these are due to misconfigurations, and small bugs introduced. As we see big tech downsize and lean more on ai that likes to do big code changes I dont see it getting better soon. Theres a lot of things we can all armchair quarterback about here, better testing, review, canary deployment, staged rollouts, rigorous review. All great things. I can hear Uncle Bob talking about rigor, giving a shit, and following principles.

We are at odds of reliability and speed. This critical infrastructure runs so many important things in our lives it feels like it deserves a professional engineer signoff on changes. Documentation of changes and testing done between changes. This would all but hault forward progress, taking us back to the level of physical components and manufacturing.

How do you decide what needs this rigor and how to regulate it when companies are incentized by number go up.

The answer right now is that we can’t and if you are managing critical infrastructure you need to take these outages into account in your disaster recovery plan and understand what you are willing to allow go down on failure.

💭 My Bed Doesn't Work Because of AWS Outage? TheStandup - YouTube

2025-10-24T00:48:31Z

Cloud is cooked bois. Seriously too much dumb shit relies on the cloud. Too much critical shit relies on single AZ’s. If normies are literally loosing sleep over an AWS outage (queue the Uncle Roger Voice), You’ve Fucked up. It’s wild to even think about a bed relying on the cloud let alone fully stop working when UE-1 goes down. I want to live in a world of opt in FEATURES, things that bring value to a product because it makes it better. Somehow a bed smells suspiciously like a cash grab for a subscription because its cloud connected. And yet for some reason it takes 16GeeeBee’s per month. I don’t own one of these, and I don’t want to. I don’t want a subscription for everything, I want my shit to just work. The future we are headed towards a world that is ever more reliant on a few key clouds. Which is fine. It’s fantastic that small companies can start and scale without owning an infrastructure team. It’s great that they have the ability to give us many nines of reliability. Some things just don’t need the cloud.

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💭 Ben Dicken on X: "I am once again begging you to put your data...

2025-09-05T23:45:00Z

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This is a really great animation of latency across different aws regions based on us-east-1.

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💭 Recovering from Disaster with Seth Eliot

2025-05-04T17:48:54Z

Recovering from Disaster with Seth Eliot

Disaster recovery is more than automation and infrastructure. There's a lot that goes into your services and some of those things can't be defined as code or automa…

Fork Around And Find Out · fafo.fm

This episode really got me thinking about the difference between HA and DR and my approach to each one. They talk about it from the perspective of a cach cow kind of app rather than a homelab or internal tooling, but think of HA as 9’s how many 9s are we willing to pay for, tink of DR as dollars how many dollars will we loose during the period of recovery. So much more in the episode, a lot of talk around cloud vendors and what they give you vs a purpose build platform with HA and DR in mind.

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💭 Changelog on X: "🗣️@dhh on Kubernetes' migration pitch: “Oh, w...

2024-11-25T02:30:44Z

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switching cloud providers, theres no easy way. K8s was supposed to get us there, haha, the deep integrations with each vendor just keep locking us in

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💭 s3-tree · PyPI

2023-07-30T14:37:06Z

s3-tree

list s3 objects in tree-like format.

PyPI · pypi.org

Super useful way to show a tree view of an s3 bucket’s structure!

pip install s3-tree

s3-tree bucketname

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