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Some years ago, a co-worker introduced our software development team to a concept known as a “Weasel Word”, a positive sounding word meant to give the illusion of positive outcome when the truth may be otherwise. For example, given the … Continue reading →

From the Amazon “Post Mortum” EBS took longer to restore because so many storage volumes had lost power, and the spare storage capacity wasn’t sufficient to handle all the re-mirroring requests. A new or existing workload will have its writes … Continue reading →