I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary A part-time DBA, anonymised as “Derek”, managed two MySQL instances in separate datacentres (Boston and…
Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire Summary Some Microsoft Azure customers saw forecasted cloud costs jump dramatically after accounts were migrated from the Microsoft Online Subscription…
White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty Summary The White House issued an executive order on 28 August 2025 adding NASA to the National Security Exclusions list. That designation…
Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing ‘cathedrals of complexity’ Summary Taylor Otwell, creator and long-time maintainer of the PHP framework Laravel, warns developers against building overly clever, brittle systems…
The production team behind the U.S. government climate portal climate.gov was dismissed earlier this summer and, while the original site remains online, its content has been effectively buried by political…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Key Points • About 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered in Forest City, Malaysia, for “Network School,” an initiative led by Balaji…
Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ Devs Unionize — There’s Now 3,500 Unionized Microsoft Workers Summary Over 450 members of Blizzard’s Diablo team have voted to unionise with the Communications Workers of America (CWA),…
Summary A lawsuit has been filed against Amazon Prime Video arguing that the platform misleads customers by using the word “buy” for digital content that is, in reality, a time‑limited…
Azure Budget Alerts Go Berserk After Microsoft Account Migration Misfire Summary Some Microsoft Azure customers were hit by misleading budget forecasts after a problematic account migration. Automated alerts predicted huge…
The Age of Cheap Online Shopping is Ending Summary The United States has ended the longstanding de minimis duty exemption that let low-value international parcels (the threshold was raised to…
