Simon Haslam
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Cloud & Infrastructure Consultant • Technology enthusiast • Oracle ACE (Director) Alumnus • #PlatformEngineering #OCI #Azure #RedHat #OpenShift #K8s #Databricks
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And let this be a reminder that the best teams in the planet can get caught offguard by issues.
In 2021, ALL of Meta (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger) went fully down for 6 hours.
Not partial degradation, like today on Amazon... fullly down
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Fa...
In 2021, ALL of Meta (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger) went fully down for 6 hours.
Not partial degradation, like today on Amazon... fullly down
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Fa...
October 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
And let this be a reminder that the best teams in the planet can get caught offguard by issues.
In 2021, ALL of Meta (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger) went fully down for 6 hours.
Not partial degradation, like today on Amazon... fullly down
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Fa...
In 2021, ALL of Meta (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger) went fully down for 6 hours.
Not partial degradation, like today on Amazon... fullly down
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Fa...
Reposted by Simon Haslam
NEW POST
Threat modeling need not be a specialized activity. Gayathri Mohan and @jimgumbley.com update his 2020 article explaining how dev teams can do this little and often - and how it can be applied to platform teams.
martinfowler.com/articles/agi...
Threat modeling need not be a specialized activity. Gayathri Mohan and @jimgumbley.com update his 2020 article explaining how dev teams can do this little and often - and how it can be applied to platform teams.
martinfowler.com/articles/agi...
Threat Modeling Guide for Software Teams
Threat modeling is a risk based approach to cyber security requirements analysis.
martinfowler.com
May 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
NEW POST
Threat modeling need not be a specialized activity. Gayathri Mohan and @jimgumbley.com update his 2020 article explaining how dev teams can do this little and often - and how it can be applied to platform teams.
martinfowler.com/articles/agi...
Threat modeling need not be a specialized activity. Gayathri Mohan and @jimgumbley.com update his 2020 article explaining how dev teams can do this little and often - and how it can be applied to platform teams.
martinfowler.com/articles/agi...
Reposted by Simon Haslam
Last-minute turnaround, as reported by Forbes
CVE or MITRE *really* needs to get funding elsewhere than the US government, to ensure stability, after this incident tho...
This could have been very very bad www.forbes.com/sites/kateof...
CVE or MITRE *really* needs to get funding elsewhere than the US government, to ensure stability, after this incident tho...
This could have been very very bad www.forbes.com/sites/kateof...
April 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Last-minute turnaround, as reported by Forbes
CVE or MITRE *really* needs to get funding elsewhere than the US government, to ensure stability, after this incident tho...
This could have been very very bad www.forbes.com/sites/kateof...
CVE or MITRE *really* needs to get funding elsewhere than the US government, to ensure stability, after this incident tho...
This could have been very very bad www.forbes.com/sites/kateof...
@vscode.dev Given this domain name is registered to Microsoft & has VScode web on it I assume this is an official account for the MS product team. Would be worth making your profile more like it is on the old place tho'
December 10, 2024 at 1:03 PM
@vscode.dev Given this domain name is registered to Microsoft & has VScode web on it I assume this is an official account for the MS product team. Would be worth making your profile more like it is on the old place tho'
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That’s why we don’t build infrastructure prematurely. Shipping crap as infrastructure is the quickest way to destroy a large company especially if you enforce the said infrastructure is in the critical path for wide use as the only option.
November 27, 2024 at 5:49 PM
That’s why we don’t build infrastructure prematurely. Shipping crap as infrastructure is the quickest way to destroy a large company especially if you enforce the said infrastructure is in the critical path for wide use as the only option.
My first post on Bluesky: grrr, I know there's all the teletype history, but how much wasted human effort has CRLF vs LF cost?! 👿
November 20, 2024 at 1:18 PM
My first post on Bluesky: grrr, I know there's all the teletype history, but how much wasted human effort has CRLF vs LF cost?! 👿