Tag: Outage

Elevated errors on Fable 5 due to upstream provider

Sorry if I blew up everyone’s RSS feeds.

Every 6 months or so comcast gives me a new IP address. Such is the consequence of refusing to pay for a business line. This means that my server goes down at midnight(ish) every 6 months or so until I change my DNS routing with cloudflare, my favorite evil megacorporation. (For anyone worried about privacy,...

When Bluesky goes down, we go down. That needs to change.

What happened this week, why it affected Chunky Guys, and what we're building so it doesn't happen again.

Failure is an option

As Software Engineers, we often tend to be overly optimistic about software. In particular, it often happens that we underestimate the probability of systems and components failures and the impact thi...