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Surfing Complexity. Lorin Hochstein's ramblings about software, complex systems, and incidents.
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Wild AI-related reliability incidents are coming
Recently, two AI-related pieces of content caught my attention. The first was the blog post On-Call is Now Theatre by Boris Tane. He argues that AI agents are now capable of doing the majority of on-call work that is currently being done by humans, and th
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GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy
In yesterday's post about the recent GitHub outage, there was a detail in the writeup that I didn't say anything about: the autoscaling policy on the service with the saturated Istio sidecar. Originally this was caused by an Istio sidecar pod reaching its
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Tough days at GitHub, a continuing series
It wasn't even a week ago when I wrote about a major GitHub incident. Yesterday, they had another big incident, which lasted almost eight hours. There's a public write-up already posted, which is surprisingly quick. While I'm personally very impatient to
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Quick thoughts on Azure Regional Outage from July 23, '26
The folks at Microsoft Azure recently wrote up a post incident review for a networking issue in their West U.S region. From the included timeline, it looks like the impact was on the order of five hours. It's a pretty short write-up, but let's take a look
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GitHub has another tough day
On August 6, 2026, GitHub had a pretty rough incident: GitHub Actions was degraded for about nine hours. GitHub posted a public incident write-up. It's only a few paragraphs long, but there are some interesting details in here. This was yet another incide
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