Coffee Break 2025.27.10

Happy Monday humans,

The government shutdown canceled my drill weekend for the National Guard, so I found myself with extra time on my hands… most of which I used to sleep and get over a cold. 😴 I’m nursing a phlegmy throat and a cup of half-caf this morning as I layout my plans for this mornings study session, the shifts I hope to pick up for work later in the week, and the travel plans I have for next weekend.

Last week we saw the severe amazon AWS outage disrupt a massive array of businesses and services. Personally, I was unaffected. How about you?

It goes to show how much we over-rely on digital infrastructure to keep our economy functioning. Incidents like this are, I hope, a bit of a wake-up call to businesses and services that the strength of the internet is its decentralization. If we give up that decentralization and focus everyone’s service through the same, almost monopolistic infrastructure with no fail-overs, we’ll be up a creek every time some junior engineer typos during DNS configuration.