“What the hell have you built”
cut out and keep PNG for many occasions! “Why is Redis talking to MongoDB?”
(tags: mongodb redis funny architecture gifs png reactiongifs)
Schema evolution in Avro, Protocol Buffers and Thrift
Good description of this key feature of decent serialization formats
(tags: avro thrift protobuf schemas serialization coding interop compatibility)
ECB forcing Ireland to pay the bondholders was like a hostage situation | David McWilliams
At the time, many of us citizens thought the State was being craven in the face of the EU but it is now clear that Trichet’s ECB was prepared to let the Irish banks go to the wall, prompting a new bank run in 2010. This is like a hostage situation. The ECB was saying to the Irish government: you managed in September 2008 to prevent a bank run with the guarantee (which should always have been temporary and conditional) but now we are going to threaten you with another bank run – because we are still funding your banks and you must pay all the bondholders and add the cost to the national debt of the country. So the implicit threat was: “We will close the banks, cause a bank run and you will be left to pick up the pieces politically, socially and economically.”
(tags: banking ireland politics ecb eu bondholders jean-claude-trichet economics)
Three lessons from running Kubernetes in production
Wow, the deployment thing is pretty hacky
(tags: deployment ops kubernetes production)
Apollo 11 Mission on Technical Debt — Medium
‘# TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPE’
(tags: hacks technical-debt backlog prioritisation project-management apollo space history)
Pinboard: bookmarks for peakscale tagged ‘postmortem’
Bookmarking so I can follow my own link from https://pinboard.in/u:jmason/t:post-mortems/
(tags: postmortem outages availability post-mortems)
