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Microsoft Outage Outrage: Was it BGP or DNS?
Richi Jennings | | azure, BGP, DNS, gitops, it-as-code, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams, MSFT, Office 365, outage, The Long ViewAll of Microsoft’s cloud services go down, everywhere. Redmond’s IaaS, PaaS and SaaS—including GitHub—were dead for several hours, and are still running unreliably—despite Microsoft saying it’s fixed ...
Dead Downtown: It’s YOUR Fault | Pentagon’s FOUR Cloud Vendors | Apple Adds MORE Price Flexibility
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, Apple, AWS, azure, Department of Defense, DoD, google, Google Cloud Platform, Hybrid Work environment, IaaS, JEDI, JWCC, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Oracle, Oracle Cloud Platform, Remote work, Remote Worker, remote workers, remote workforce, remote working, The Long View, WFH, work from home, working at home, working from homeIn this week’s The Long View: Home working is ripping the heart out of cities, the DoD’s bizarre cloud strategy, and Apple adds a $10,000 app price option ...
DevOps, Drought and Climate | Meta❤️PTP
Richi Jennings | | climate change, cloud database, consistency, Green data center, green tech, Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced, Meta, Meta Platforms, Precision Time Protocol (PTP), The Long ViewIn this week’s The Long View: Data centers cause climate change, and Meta is rolling out Precision Time Protocol ...
Data Centers IN SPAAACE | Discord GDPR Fine | AWS Fires Dead Wood
Richi Jennings | | Amazon Web Services, AWS, career, careers, CNIL, DIscord, Europe, GDPR, privacy, The Long View, To write about life first you must live itIn this week’s The Long View: The EU wants to put servers in orbit, a GDPR penalty for Discord, and Amazon has the hatchet out ...
Rust Momentum Intensifies | Elon Says No WFH
Richi Jennings | | Elon Musk, Hybrid Work environment, Remote work, Rust, Rust programming, The Long View, The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do—and then do it, twitter, vulnerabilities, WFHIn this week’s The Long View: People won’t shut up about Rustlang, and Musk mandates Twitter teams return to the office ...
OpenSSL Fiasco: What can DevOps Learn? | Elon Fires ‘50%’ of Twitter
Richi Jennings | | CVE-2022-3602, CVE-2022-3786, Elon Musk, If life were predictable it would cease to be life—and be without flavor, layoffs, OpenSSL, RCE, redundancy, security vulnerabilities, The Long View, twitterIn this week’s The Long View: The OpenSSL project has egg on its face, and half of Twitter’s staff are for the chop tomorrow ...
Meta Income Down by Half | Will Apple Make it Worse? | Linux Secure Boot Fix
Richi Jennings | | Apple, facebook, in-app purchase, initrd, iOS, Lennart Poettering, linux, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, Metaverse, secure boot, systemd, The Long View, Your time is limited—so don’t waste it living someone else’s lifeIn this week’s The Long View: Meta’s latest results are very bad, Apple wants its cut of Facebook ads, and Lennart Poettering proposes improving Secure Boot for Linux ...
Fire at Data Center Causes Chaos | 20% Costlier Cloud
Richi Jennings | | disaster recovery, downtime, IaaS, Kakao, Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans, on-premises, PaaS, Pangyo, SaaS, SK C&C, South Korea, The Long View, uptimeIn this week’s The Long View: A S. Korean conflagration leads to a ridiculously long outage, and the price of public cloud is skyrocketing ...
Kill the Password: Google on Board | 4-Day Week Proves Worthy
Richi Jennings | | 4-Day Work Week, FIDO, google, I am not bound to please thee with my answer, Passkeys, The Long View, WebAuthnIn this week’s The Long View: Passkeys is getting another big-tech supporter, and the four-day workweek train picks up speed ...
Recession! DevOps Hiring Freeze | Data Centers Suck (Power) | Intel to ‘be’ Wi-Fi 7
Richi Jennings | | 802.11be, Alphabet, Apple, ARM, data centers, facebook, google, Green data center, hiring, Intel, Meta Platforms, microsoft, Netflix, Oracle, recession, RISC-V, Salesforce, Tesla, The Long View, There’s no point in questioning authority if you aren’t going to listen to the answers, twitter, Wi-Fi 7In this week’s The Long View: Engineer jobs are being cut, cloud infrastructure is using too much energy, and Intel’s 802.11be silicon is alive ...
VW CEO Fired for Dev Fails | Fiber Shortage Hits | Google Fires Blake Lemoine
Richi Jennings | | ai, AI/ML, autonomous vehicles, careers, CI/CD, continuous deployment, driverless cars, fiber, google, Herbert Diess, LaMDA, ml, Sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds, The Long View, VolkswagenIn this week’s The Long View: Herbert Diess is out at VW because software is hard (yo), fiber optic cable is hard to find, and the guy who said LaMDA was sentient ...
3 New WFH and Hybrid Work Trends That YOU Need to Grok
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, facebook, freestyle friday, Hybrid Work environment, Many a true word hath been spoken in jest, Meta, relocation, Remote work, The Long View, Tulsa, WFHIn this week’s The Long View, a remote/hybrid work special: Bribes to relocate you, Fridays are forgotten, and big tech firms stop building offices ...
