Surfing Complexity

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Lorin Hochstein's essays on software incidents, complex systems, reliability, resilience, and the human side of engineering.

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• Quick thoughts on GitHub's Sept 23 incident #Reliability #Incidents #Engineering

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  Oct 4, 2026

• There was a light that never went out #Reliability #Engineering #Incidents

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  Oct 2, 2026

• Saturation at GitHub: the saga continues #Reliability #Engineering #Systems

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  Sep 20, 2026

• How the incident happened: a play in one act #Reliability #Engineering #Incidents

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  Sep 19, 2026

• Thoughts on the July 8th Telstra outage report #Reliability #Incidents #Engineering

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  Sep 13, 2026

• Thoughts on the Buildkite Aug 25 incident #Reliability #Incidents #Engineering

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  Sep 2, 2026

• Quick thoughts on GitHub Actions Aug 26 incident #Reliability #Engineering #Incidents

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  Aug 30, 2026

• Omnipresent availability risks in cloud software #Reliability #CloudComputing #Engineering

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  Aug 29, 2026

• Wild AI-related reliability incidents are coming #Reliability #AI #Systems

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  Aug 23, 2026

• GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy #SoftwareEngineering #SystemDesign #Reliability

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  Aug 20, 2026