AWS, Microsoft Azure, and CloudFlare – services run by gigantic corporations with endless supply of money and talent – all experience catastrophic, global failures that take innumerable other services down with them within 30 days. :blob0w0:

Meanwhile Wikipedia just keeps chugging along, globally stable and reliable as always. :blobcatlove:

And yes, Wikimedia Foundation runs a pretty complex infrastructure:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_infrastructure

#SysAdmin #CloudFlare #AWS #Azure #Wikipedia

There is a book called Normal Accidents:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Accidents

The author puts forth three rules that define systems susceptible to catastrophic accidents which are completely to be expected:

- the system is complex
- the system is tightly coupled
- the system has catastrophic potential

This describes huge cloud providers like CloudFlare very well, and specifically describes the last outage very well.

CloudFlare, AWS, Azure, GCP are simply Too Big Not To Fail.

#SysAdmin #CloudFlare

AWS, Microsoft Azure, and CloudFlare – services run by gigantic corporations with endless supply of money and talent – all experience catastrophic, global failures that take innumerable other services down with them within 30 days. :blob0w0:

Meanwhile Wikipedia just keeps chugging along, globally stable and reliable as always. :blobcatlove:

And yes, Wikimedia Foundation runs a pretty complex infrastructure:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_infrastructure

#SysAdmin #CloudFlare #AWS #Azure #Wikipedia

There is a book called Normal Accidents:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Accidents

The author puts forth three rules that define systems susceptible to catastrophic accidents which are completely to be expected:

- the system is complex
- the system is tightly coupled
- the system has catastrophic potential

This describes huge cloud providers like CloudFlare very well, and specifically describes the last outage very well.

CloudFlare, AWS, Azure, GCP are simply Too Big Not To Fail.

#SysAdmin #CloudFlare

✅ invalid file
✅ deployed globally
✅ crashing the software

CloudFlare just pulled a CrowdStrike?
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

#CloudFlare #CrowdStrike #SysAdmin

If you absolutely must use XML as the format for your configuration files, at least have the common decency to provide a full schema.

#SysAdmin

You will not believe the trick-or-treat trick Microsoft just pulled!

#Microsoft #Azure #Outage #SysAdmin

Before anyone mentions how reliable Google Cloud is, here's a massive outage from June this year:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/16/google-cloud-outage-apology.html

And from October last year:
https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/e3yQSE1ysCGjCVEn2q1h

#SysAdmin #Outage #Gatekeepers

You will not believe the trick-or-treat trick Microsoft just pulled!

#Microsoft #Azure #Outage #SysAdmin

Line go up!

#AWS #AWSOutage #SysAdmin

so… has mosh been audited yet?

how do we feel about it, security-wise?

#InfoSec #SysAdmin #Linux