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As we discover more about the Boeing 737 MAX accidents, this author trolled through the ASRS database looking for related complaints.
Thanks to Greg Burek for this one.
James Fallows — The Atlantic
Learn about ASRS, the Aviation Safety Reporting System. Pilots and other aviation crew can report concerns anonymously, and the results are summarized regularly and reported to the FAA, NTSB, and other organizations.
Thanks to Greg Burek for this one.
Jerry Colen — NASA
I caught wind of a previous Boeing 737 issue from the 90s during a personal conversation this week. There’s an interesting parallel to the current 737 MAX issue, as Boeing blamed pilots for incorrectly responding to a “normal” flight incident for which pilots are routinely trained.
Various — Wikipedia
Dr Justine Jordan gives a personal account of how on-duty napping during extended overnight in-hospital duty hours as a trainee doctor eased her fatigue levels and raised her state of alertness
Dr. Justine Jordan — Irish Medical Times
circuit breakers aren’t great because server depends on clients to be configured correctly. throttling server-side is better
Circuit-breakers are great, but the service depends on the clients to be configured correctly. A server-side rate-limiting solution is more robust.
Michael Cartmell — Grab
The concept of an ACL-based authorization system is simple enough, but can be a challenge to maintain at scale.
Michael Leong — LinkedIn
We can tell one thing from the outside: it wasn’t a BGP issue.
Alec Pinkham — AppNeta
Outages
- Google BigQuery
- MySpace
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Social networking company Myspace has apologized for apparently losing 12 years’ worth of music uploaded to its site, following a server migration error — a loss potentially amounting to 50 million songs.
Matthew Robinson — CNN
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- Fastly
- Fastly suffered a series of incidents in South America.Full disclosure: Fastly is my employer.
- iVote registration system (New South Wales, AU)
- The voter registration system failed on the eve of the election.
- Basecamp
- Basecamp suffered a major outage, hot on the heels of another outage a couple weeks back.Thanks to Greg Burek for this one.
DHH — Basecamp
- Basecamp suffered a major outage, hot on the heels of another outage a couple weeks back.Thanks to Greg Burek for this one.
- British Government Petition Site Crashes As People Demand Brexit Cancelation
- Spark (medical alert system)
