High profile or high impact outage or incidents are just a way of the life in modern internet, or public cloud. The key is to recover quickly from the incident, and learn from those incidents: post mortem analysis, or in some places they do root cause analysis or RCA, and in my personal opinion, RCA is usually useless exercise, both due to the political nature of scapegoating in large orgs, as well as there are usually some unique breakpoints in an incident.
<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">2</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> And personally, I am not happy with Mercy Go Health First some background. There are 3 urgent care places near where we live. In the order of opening: St. Luke’s urgent care (next to a CVS). Total Access Urgent Care (TAUC): an independent chain that has no affiliation with a hospital; they have X-ray and
<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">3</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> Traditionally the United States likes to boast it’s a democracy and people voted for their political leaders. With the recent re-election of Trump and also with Elon Musk heavily involved in the last few months before the Nov 5 election, with his money and influence (think the X.com formerly Twitter.com). Also, it seems many tech
<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">3</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> Business, Market and Economy Polaris Inc stock ($PII) closed under $60 the 1st time in last few years. I listened to their most recent investor conference: Polaris Speaks at Morgan Stanley Global Conference. You may listen to it via the link (need to register) or let me summarize it for you: things are not looking
<span class="rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time">2</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> First a few tips (not the tip as in the money) I learned since I drove Uber. One is you can setup a secured code like 2 factor authentication: I have one passenger used this feature. This may be faster than looking at license plate/exchange names etc. The driver can only “start the trip” after
