[icebraining]

There's also been an unusually large number of outages (...)

Maybe it's part of the campaign to promote self-reliance, like a vaccine for larger scale outages.

[coredog64]

Physical Chaos Monkey. Maybe there is an ex-Netfix engineer in government.

[icebraining]

Or a ex-member of the military. This[1] episode of Omega Tau aboard a Royal Navy ship really made me realize how much they train for Shit Happening - I think they simulated a fire or man overboard every other day. We civilians should probably do more of that as well.

[1] http://omegataupodcast.net/277-life-and-work-on-hms-enterpri...