Reliability, Risks, Incident Analysis, and what we find while building.
12 min readGitHub's February availability report documents two incidents an hour apart with the same root cause. The first mitigation was correct for what the team could see, and it was not the fix. This is a reading of the public report through two lenses, one heuristic and one systems-theoretic.
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7 min readAcross nearly 3,000 public postmortems, medium-severity incidents consume roughly thirteen times more engineering time than critical ones. The implication is upstream.
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12 min readThe DORA 2026 ROI report names the productivity dip of AI adoption and prices it. The verification tax it names is the same cost vibe coding pushes onto a tired reviewer.
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13 min readI ran our STPA review tool on a PRD I was about to build myself. Seven findings, six loss scenarios, every one of them about interactions between components that individually worked fine.
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