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Thoughts on the Buildkite Aug 25 incident – Surfing Complexity

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The other day, I wrote about a GitHub Actions incident. But GitHub Actions isn’t the only CI-as-a-service out there. Buildkite, which is another CI company, recently released a public write-u…

The other day, I wrote about a GitHub Actions incident. But GitHub Actions isn’t the only CI-as-a-service out there. Buildkite, which is another CI company, recently released a public write-up of an incident they experienced last week. It’s a great one: their incident report contains a lot more detail than GitHub’s. Here I’ll discuss my own observations. The failure mode The write-up describes what I found to be a fascinating failure mode. Here I’m going to do my best to explain it in my own words. A bit about Kubernetes First, some Kubernetes terminology to get us all on the same page.…

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