There have been quite a few high profile outages recently, although I don’t think correlated.

At the suggestion of several kind people here, I started publishing quarterly round ups of all the major outages on the StatusGator blog. We have lots of data about outages, though the last post took a mostly qualitative approach. Hopefully we can get more sophisticated with it in the future and be more quantitative, perhaps funding outages that affect or cause other outages.

More like cascading effects from the extended work from home and extended quarantine orders.

Ops people also get tired of video conferences.

Ops people are used to working together in a room with stats, runbooks, subject matter experts at hand for consults, going to the next office over to get the people who wrote the code for the service to pop by and consult on how/why a service went down.

All of those procedures are no longer useful.

It's getting to all of us.

Maybe they just all went the wrong path when it comes to managing complexity : trying to much to abstract it away with abstractions like kubernetes.

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