The Sun is an active threat to the systems civilization runs on: how flares and coronal mass ejections work, why geomagnetically induced currents kill transformers, the Carrington and Quebec and Gannon events, the Starlink loss of 2022, the L1 early-warning fleet that buys you minutes, and what grid operators actually do when NOAA issues a G5.
Resilience
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Space Weather: When the Sun Attacks Your Infrastructure -
Chaos Engineering in Practice: Breaking Things on Purpose to Build Unbreakable Systems A comprehensive guide to chaos engineering—covering the steady-state hypothesis, designing safe experiments, running game days, using Chaos Monkey, Litmus Chaos, and k6, and building a chaos program that actually improves reliability.
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Chaos Engineering on a Budget: Building Resilience Without Breaking the Bank Run controlled failure experiments with Chaos Monkey, Pumba, and Litmus on a shoestring budget. Learn to design steady-state hypotheses, run game days, and build genuine confidence in your runbooks.
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Microservices Patterns That Work Microservices trade a hard problem you understand — a tangled monolith — for a set of hard problems you might not: network failure, partial outages, distributed data, and operational sprawl. This is a field guide to the patterns that make the trade survivable: how services should talk, how to stop failures cascading, how to manage data without distributed transactions, and the honest case for not splitting at all.