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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A single DNS race condition brought AWS to its knees⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a full postmortem from AWS. One piece that stands out to me:

  due to the large number of droplets, efforts to establish new droplet leases took long enough that the work could not be completed before they timed out. Additional work was queued to reattempt establishing the droplet lease. At this point, DWFM had entered a state of congestive collapse and was unable to make forward progress in recovering droplet leases.

  That is, the load that resulted from the initial failure was not something the system was designed to handle, so it had cascading effects / required manual cleanup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy and four times the subprime bubble, analyst says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So if your system is oscillating wildly, your P term is too large, right?

  P = social media, 24h news cycle
  I = education
  D = regulation

  ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TTC is already 0xA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  100 coins in the clock was probably my toughest of the 120 stars.