An Outage Survival Guide for Startup CEOs

I had a day from hell a decade ago. I was a cofounder of a nascent wireless startup with a foothold in Chicago and Nashville. We were fighting hard for every dollar of revenue and were gaining traction every day. At this stage, we couldn’t afford luxurious…

The Medium Engineering team have committed to publishing a technical postmortem for serious outages to Medium core services, in order to build trust and hold us accountable to our users. For more background on this program read this.

Thursday 3 March 2016

Medium Outage

Knowing When Your Lights Will Come Back On

Knowledge is power. Does your utility have enough of the right spatial intelligence?

By Bill Meehan, Esri

“More information is always better than less.” — Simon Sinek, Author

Sunday 21 February 2016

Partial Medium Outage

Cellular Outage Across The Nation

Thousands left without internet, cell or land line service; are left scratching their heads as to why.

If you were one of the thousands across the nation today, particularly in the Tennessee Valley area, that were without cellular or internet…

24 Hours of…Weird

Or, my experience with an Internet outage

Post-mortem of October 26th, 2015

At 10 AM (UTC+1) of 26. 10. 2015, Teamweek experienced a service outage which lasted for nearly 2…

What to do when Google is down? Anyone using Office 365? Yes, a few and rising….

Not sure if you were impacted, but yesterday some of Google’s online collaboration tools (Docs/Sheets etc.) were not available apparently due to a software update issue. These outages seem to…