After two years of pandemics and three months of war, this sign captures the feeling of the year. Can we all see 2019 once again?
via @secevangelism on Twitter:
Tag: failure
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2022 on a sign
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Fastly Global CDN Disruption
Fastly is one of the major CDN vendors globally. As a regular consumer you wouldn’t be aware of their service, until a failure hits. Today the service faced a configuration issue, that apparently hit global pages like NYTimes and Bloomberg, but also Amazon, Reddit and Twitter, as reported in multiple sources. The issue is reported resolved by the vendor as of this writing. Details on their status page:
Fastly’s Status Page – Global CDN Disruption.
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Sicherheitsalbtraum: Vernetzte Türklingeln
Vernetzte Türklingeln: Das Internet der Dinge liefert. Auch zu Weihnachten.
(more…)Günstige digitale Videoklingeln weisen schwere Sicherheitslücken wie Authentifizierungsprobleme auf und werden teils schon mit Softwarefehlern geliefert.
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Post Mortem
Remember when the Cloud was off earlier this month? Google published a post mortem article and root cause analysis on their Cloud Status Blog.
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The cloud is off.
#googledown since about 13.00CET Google is down. That feels like the Internet is off. That is what was missing to make the year 2020 feel complete.
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AWS hit by major DDoS attack
DDoS is an annoyance not even the biggest Cloud is safe from. Apparently AWS’s Route 53 was affected and failed to resolve multiple DNS names over several hours.
Distributed of Denial Service Parts of AWS were taken offline for hours
Source: TechRadar. The newspage also has a reference of 2019’s best DDoS Protection.
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The cloud runs on power, too.
However, power failed in a data center in Gutersloh, Germany, this afternoon, bringing down several popular German websites.
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When a Project dies
When is a project dead?
One question that somebody asked me a few days back keeps me thinking for a while now. Mostly, because it should not have a clear answer. Have you ever had to ask yourself, what to do when your heart-project is at risk to co
me to an end? A project that just dies, has had some serious problems. A dead-end, that leaves no next steps, along a final decision. In a way that no project goal materialized and no other milestone is reachable? If that is looming to happen, one should consider to check the project plan and answer a couple of questions about the failure. How did all the tasks and work packages depend on each other, that they made an entire project fail? Were some assumptions to optimistic? Was budget too tight? Was the project to ambitious?The show must go on
Depending on size, no project is barely ever dead. Typically, a project consists of multiple components. Milestones, Tasks, Work-Packages, are just common terms for break downs structures of a project. Such fragments, re-used or re-arranged, can help achieving a modified goal. There are reasons, one or another milestone had difficulties. There are hard facts, like budgets, technical dependencies or necessities, required skills, availability of material or combinations of anything. And there are soft facts, like project team engagement, stakeholder opinion, even hubris may result in milestones not being reached.Failure
A roadblock, identified early enough, allows to realign a project plan, to cope with any trouble, endangering tasks and milestones. In an iterative project approach, the project lead can change a goal, aligning with changing requirements. This way, the project may not reach it’s initially intended goal, but it will not fail in its totality. When a project dies, it will leave bad feelings with the budget owner, with stakeholder and the team. A goal that the team reached, maybe through a more creative approach, will still be a goal reached.