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Beware the Ides of March

So on March 15th (well, March 16th UTC and EDT) - the public facing website that I share in the responsibility for suffered an outage.
It’s a classic example of a cascaded failure - particularly a failure of human judgement (mine). I spend a lot of my time in my job [...]

Posted 26 March 2008 † jayoung § rambles ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

Note to Self

Keeping around a half-million spam emails in a single folder? Terrible idea.

Posted 18 March 2008 † jayoung § rambles ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: ,

System, Deconstructed

So I had this long, ginormous post series planned about a service transition last week - where I had to move the mail server from one room to another to preempt a 57 hour outage. It was going to full of all kinds of fun tidbits about sheer panic with Apple’s OpenDirectory - and [...]

Posted 26 November 2007 † jayoung § rambles ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

Quote of the Day

I’ve been helping an Extension specialist with some MediaWiki concepts the last few days, even very loquacious answer to how MediaWiki links are constructed (by going into the values that MediaWiki is designed on) - I broke references to WordStar: ” [MediaWiki] was meant to remove the barriers to “editing” any given page. [...]

Posted 19 October 2007 † jayoung § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: