Programming Digest #468: Inside the longest Atlassian outage of all time

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Inside the longest Atlassian outage of all time

Hundreds of companies have no access to JIRA, Confluence and OpsGenie. What can engineering teams learn from the poor handling of this outage?

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A tale of yak shaving: Accidentally making a language, for an engine, for a game

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