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by stigz 33 days ago
> We, ngrok, have sponsored Mac to write this post because we think it’s an underexplored perspective on the topic of reliability.

Uh, okay. Were there any reliability perspectives gained from this 30-year-old postmortem that would help us in the modern age? After reading the article, I feel the answer is "none". Not that I'm complaining I love this era of the internet. But I fail to see any importance here.

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History is important and interesting to some of us. Just because it's not a direct 1:1 mapping of computer problems today doesn't make it any less intellectually stimulating to read about
The human perspective of the outage, and the degree to which that gets buried in a fully-monopolised hellscape.