Five Causes Behind Most Outages: An Opinionated Taxonomy
Incidents feel infinitely varied and mostly are not. Five recurring shapes, the tell for each, and why the taxonomy is worth more during an incident than after.
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Posts tagged Operations
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Postgres Until It Hurts: The Operational Case for One Database Doing Several Jobs
The pendulum swung back to one relational database for documents, queues, search and vectors: the case for it, and where a specialised system still wins.
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The Follow-Up Question Is the Interview
Candidates over-prepare the first ten minutes and under-prepare the next thirty: the five axes interviewers probe once the boxes exist, and an answer for each.
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The Migration You Cannot Roll Back
Deploys taught us every change is reversible. Schema and data migrations are not, and teams discover which step was one-way during the incident it caused.
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