On Mastodon, Ole Peder Brandtzæg pointed me to (yet) another GitHub incident that happened back on Sept 23. The write-up is very short, so I’ll just excerpt the whole thing here (emphasis min…

Lex Neva (of SRE Weekly fame) pointed me to this recent GCP incident report, which describes networking issues they experienced in their us-central1 region. This incident is yet another reminder of…

When it comes to public incident write-ups, GitHub continues to be the gift that keeps on giving. They keep suffering collateral damage from the AI boom, as more developers using AI means more load…

A hallway in a tech company office. A and B are standing in the hallway. B is holding a multiple page document. A: Wow, that incident from a couple of weeks ago was a real doozy. Do you know how it…

On July 8, 2026, the Australian telecom company Telestra experienced a significant outage related to an NTP issue. Telestra hired a consulting firm to do an incident review, and a couple of weeks a…

The other day, I wrote about a GitHub Actions incident. But GitHub Actions isn’t the only CI-as-a-service out there. Buildkite, which is another CI company, recently released a public write-u…

Last week, GitHub Actions experienced another incident. As is typical of a GitHub public writeup, it was published very soon after the incident, but there also aren’t isn’t a lot of det…

I’m using this post to gather together some common threads I’ve noticed after reading write-ups of major cloud software incidents. By cloud software, I’m referring to software-as-…

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