Day: May 10, 2019

This Is An Alert…

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Please god—you do not need to send alerts for absolutely every automatic process. And, no, “just in case” is even more meaningless.

Alerts are an interruption for someone. It’s a mechanism to tell someone that something has occured that the automation doesn’t know how to handle. This has happened, here’s why and what you need to do.

I can’t count the number of times that I’ve seen alerts going out to interrupt everyone to let them know that automation has done the automatic things that it was normally expected to do.

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In 24h, this channel was notifying the SRE team of — automation doing its job. 1,781 times.

It’s exactly like sending…

*thump*

…a notification for every…

*thump*

…heartbeat. I only want to know…

*thump*

…if it’s not doing what it’s…

*thump*

…implemented to handle…

*beeeeeeeep*

…automatically. Then I’ll worry about it.

Bloomberg Leaked Apple-Release Specifics?

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Wait, wasn’t it Bloomberg that did a hit and run piece about a rather implausible, science-fiction-y issue with SuperMicro hardware a few months ago? Entirely baseless, didn’t name names or give any other mechanism to substantiate the claims.

Stock on all three companies took a dive.

And now that same Bloomberg has released “leak” of the pending Apple release of macOS (v10.15), iOS (v13), and WatchOS (v6) that outlines a huge number of features.

Sounds quite suspicious to me, especially because of the source. They haven’t named a name or provide any other means to validate the claims they’re making. So, no, I certainly don’t trust anything revealed via Bloomberg.