Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I’m with you on the complexity — though my thoughts came from NATS’s “We have identified that the issue was in our flight processing system.” Which felt fairly specific. But that decision history you describe wouldn’t surprise me; I’ve certainly seen it before. 010
Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026These are the questions I hope Heidi Alexander is asking Martin Rolfe. A failure with a recovery time measured in seconds… it’s manageable. The failure isn’t the problem. Why was this recovery lasting hours and days? What became so complicated? What processes and practices WEREN’T in place? 052
Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026As an industry, we have layers of defences against this. Code review. Testing environments. Independent safety assurance. Redundancy. Failover. Rollback. Incident-response procedures. This shouldn’t be happening in 2026. 262
Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026There will be somebody responsible for the NATS outage that has disrupted 1,000 flights today. And I feel for them. Their code, systems, or assurance processes appear to have failed — and that’s awful. (And I say this as someone who is stranded at a foreign airport, keen to get home.) BUT. 260
Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Buy a book for a child in Dolly’s memory. donate.imaginationlibrary.com And the wonderful story of her Imagination Library: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...donate.imaginationlibrary.comHomeMake a donation and support Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in communities around the world and help put more books into the hands of more children. 065
Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Between her Covid vaccine finding, her literacy efforts and of course her music, I feel like we’ve lost both a friend and the best kind of leader. What a legacy to leave. RIP Dolly PartonBo Thompson@gaudipern.bsky.social(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own. Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She 0143
Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Sending good wishes, Ian. I’m sorry to hear you’re going through this, and glad to hear you’re getting good care. 010