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Tom and Jamie talk through the postmortems of outages that have affected high profile sites.
During a routine addition of some servers to the Kinesis front end cluster in US-East-1 in November 2020, AWS ran into an OS limit on the max number of threads. That resulted in a multi hour outage that affected a number of other AWS servers, including ECS, EKS, Cognito, and Cloudwatch. We probably won’t do […]
The Downtime Project
Tom and Jamie talk through the postmortems of outages that have affected high profile sites.
