Fallthrough

This cannot keep happening. Another day, another outage. On this week's episode Kris and Matt talk about the recent Cloudflare outage. And boy do they have thoughts, we really hope you enjoy this exchange of monologues.

If you prefer to watch this episode, you can view it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/LsOgDolc9Fw

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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue (00:00:00)
  • Chapter 1: The Cloudflare Outage (00:02:17)
  • Chapter 2: Too Much Centralization? (00:20:24)
  • Chapter 3: Communication Matters (00:26:22)
  • Chapter 4: Magic Numbers Take Down The Internet [Extended] (00:29:50)
  • Chapter 5: Programming Language Hate and AI versus Tools (00:30:19)
  • Chapter 6: The Generalist and The Specialist [Extended] (00:49:29)
  • Epilogue (00:50:03)

Socials:
  • (00:00) - Prologue
  • (02:17) - Chapter 1: The Cloudflare Outage
  • (02:52) - Chapter 2: Too Much Centralization?
  • (26:22) - Chapter 3: Communication Matters
  • (26:43) - Chapter 4: Magic Numbers Take Down The Internet [Extended]
  • (30:19) - Chapter 5: Programming Language Hate and AI versus Tools
  • (35:05) - Chapter 6: The Generalist and The Specialist [Extended]
  • (50:03) - Epilogue

Creators and Guests

Host
Kris Brandow
Host
Matthew Sanabria
Matthew is an engineering leader focused on building reliable, scalable, and observable systems. Matthew is known for using his breadth and depth of experience to add value in minimal context situations and help great people become great engineers through mentoring. Matthew serves the Go community as a member of GoBridge. In his spare time, Matthew spends time with his family, helps grow his wife's chocolate business, works on home improvement projects, and reads technical resources to learn and tinker.

What is Fallthrough?

A deep and nuanced conversational podcast focused on technology, software, and computing.