Hands up if you're actually trying to build small, discrete, cellularized services because you understand that "globally scalable multi region" backed by an overly complex data management strategy IS ONE OF THE WORST THINGS YOU CAN DO.

Stop building big distributed systems when you can avoid them.

A mini incident report has been published for yesterday's Google cloud outage:
status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow...

Summary:

Also this bucket is pretty good. I get it regularly.
Along with the 1.25kg bucket of potatoes.

This is all a lie.

I get multiple.

In today's Strands you can spell MONORAIL two ways, and neither of them are a correct answer.

I had to mute a load of words.
It's cleaned things up here SO much. I still get a little bit that trickles through but it's low enough to provide a useful signal and not overwhelm me.

My favourite author and my favourite narrator?
I mashed that buy button so hard they felt it in the Audible checkout system.

Join @dbsmasher.com and I in perpetual imposter syndrome.
It's great.

@raejinmoon.bsky.social and Son cooked while l did dishes :)
The bread rolls were a bit pale but tasty. Turkey was an accidental success after I grilled it upside down.

"Check out my 24ct gold balls"

This is Robbie, he's a Bassett hound.
He's enormous.
And he snores.

#dogs