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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Large-capacity microSD cards are now regularly out of stock in Japan as storage crunch claims another victim — high-capacity HDDs are also vanishing⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s time to properly erase and eBay my box of old HDDs?

  …nope, still only $30 shipped for a refurbished 1TB WD or Seagate drive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A single DNS race condition brought AWS to its knees⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a full postmortem from AWS. One piece that stands out to me:

  due to the large number of droplets, efforts to establish new droplet leases took long enough that the work could not be completed before they timed out. Additional work was queued to reattempt establishing the droplet lease. At this point, DWFM had entered a state of congestive collapse and was unable to make forward progress in recovering droplet leases.

  That is, the load that resulted from the initial failure was not something the system was designed to handle, so it had cascading effects / required manual cleanup.