- October 21 post-incident analysis | The GitHub Blog
 43s of lost connectivity resulted in 24 hours of service degradation.
 (categories: post-mortem change root-cause-assessment github resiliency )
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Platforms
 Quote amongst many useful tidbits: "… The platform should provide a team with self-service access. Specifically it should allow for self-service provisioning, self-service configuration, and self-service management and operation of the platform capabilities and assets."
 (categories: devops architecture platform martinfowler engineering )
- A Reality Check for IBM’s AI Ambitions – MIT Technology Review
 Quote: "… In February of this year, the University of Texas, which runs M.D. Anderson, announced it had shuttered the project, leaving the medical center out $39 million in payments to IBM—for a project originally contracted at $2.4 million."
 (categories: ai machinelearning ibm medicine health )