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2 posts tagged #reliability.
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Analysis · Jun 26, 2026 · Colten Anderson
You don't have five reliability problems, you have one loop
Flapping autoscalers, retry storms, the on-call death spiral, SLOs that quietly rot. They're the same handful of feedback structures wearing different hats. Here's how to spot which loop you're feeding before you patch the symptom again.
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Analysis · May 1, 2026 · Colten Anderson
The most dangerous sentence in a code comment is 'this should never happen'
From Therac-25 to CrowdStrike, the same pattern keeps producing catastrophic failures: an engineer reasons that a condition is impossible, skips the guard, and the system outgrows the assumption.