Tag Archives: high availability

What’s the Cost of an Hour?

Posted on March 20, 2020 by

In 2017, we had a number of high profile downtime outages from companies. The British Airways fiasco, United airlines being grounded, Starbucks, Amazon, and more. There was a survey that noted 98% of respondents said an hour of downtime cost … Continue reading →

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MTTD

Posted on September 11, 2019 by

There are a lot of Mean-Time-To-xxxx acronyms. Many of us have heard of the mean time between failures (MTBF) for disk drives. Some of us use that information when considering which model to buy. In the DevOps world, there are … Continue reading →

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GitHub Downtime

Posted on December 3, 2018 by

I didn’t notice any issues with GitHub, but others did. The majority of my interaction is just through the git protocol, so things tend to work fast, and I don’t have any database access. I rarely use the Issues, and … Continue reading →

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Republish: The Cost of Switching

Posted on November 8, 2018 by

Still on vacation. Enjoy The Cost of Switching

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