Slip Away, by Cleo Reed

from the album Root Cause

Cleo Reed

I always appreciate a good write-up of outages and Google had one for their outage on the 12th. They put in new policies around quota handling, but then that had some unexpected side effects. Since they didn't have a feature flag to turn it off quickly, recovery took a little bit longer.

One reason I like this is it makes you think of what features need to go into APIs/services and how everything fits together. Google runs planet-scale infrastructure, but I think there are takeaways for projects of any size in write-ups like these.

https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1SsW

#engineering #sre #google #outages #rootcause #design

Google Cloud Service Health

Conflict in #Gaza & #Kashmir on a parallel track
"partly driven by e strategies tt govern almost all "asymmetric" wars, but there's a deeper sense in which both conflicts r te result of #British #mistakes made in the dying days of the empire.. the reckless haste w which #Britain, bankrupted by WWII, dumped its commitments & pulled its troops out made e ensuing wars in those territories all but inevitable. So remember, e #rootcause of all tis looming tragedy was e 🇬🇧empire"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/3023146/conflict-in-gaza-and-kashmir-on-a-parallel-track
Conflict in Gaza and Kashmir on a parallel track

There is a striking parallel between the 20-month war in the Gaza Strip and the week-old not-yet-war between India and Pakistan. Both confrontations were set off by horrendously cruel mass murders by terrorists whose goal was obviously to start a war that drew the attention of the world back to their own goals and grievances.

Bangkok Post
Funny fishbone analysis; finding a root cause for an identified issue. #funny #fishboneanalysis #rootcause #problem #quality #business

A quotation from Nassim Nicholas Taleb

History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, the generator of history. There is a fundamental incompleteness in your grasp of such events, since you do not see what’s inside the box, how the mechanisms work. What I call the generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds. You are very likely to be fooled about their intentions.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
The Black Swan, Part 1, ch. 1 “The Apprenticeship of an Empirical Skeptic” (2007)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/taleb-nassim-nichola…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #blackswan #causeandeffect #events #history #interpretation #outcomes #retrospect #rootcause #understanding

3 Legged 5 Why's - A way to further break down the identified failure. #rootcause #5whys

#ThoughtProvoker 

#Newspeak IS our #UbiquitousLanguage for #DDD of Society in 2025. Almost!

Next time when #Orwell and #Huxley come up in #discourse remember:

We live in #dystopia NOW!
Unseen by our #DistractionEconomy blindfolds.

We're the frogs for years, taking a nice warm bath to unsee #RootCause of #ClimateChange temperature rise:

#Hypercapitalism

Vice has free reign as #truth is destroyed.

We MUST be #Plainspeaking
We MUST use #CommonSense
We MUST restore #Reality

It would be so cool if reporters and police would have investigated Trump and his grifters with similar resources and zeal they used to catch this UHC killer. He's bad, but arguably way less bad than collapsing democracy?
#RootCause #ruleoflaw #notmyOligarch #notmyDictator
To get to a corrective and preventive solution, you must find the root cause. There are different methods to use, but taking time and going through the entire process is important. Skimping on this will lead you right back to doing it again. #rootcause #quality #methods #capa #process #prevent #correct