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Detect #13: OpenAI Error Rates, Lies Programmers Believe About Memory, SREcon ....

We dig into recent failure patterns from OpenAI's 20% error spike, unpack lessons on debugging career-impacting outages, and challenge persistent myths developers hold about memory usage.

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April 2, 2025

Detect #12: Outages at Slack, Cloudflare, Playstation, Go Profiling Tricks, Understanding Kubernetes Evictions

Heading-scratching issues and Major incidents..in detect #12.

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March 4, 2025

Detect #11: Capital One and GitHub outages, new profiling tools, and the incident severity debate

DeepSeek arrives. OpenAI, Github, Capital One outages - and more in detect 11.

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March 4, 2025

Detect #9: Reddit Outage, Debugging in Go, Lessons from Kubernetes Problem Detection, and Zero-Downtime Migrations ...

Reddit outage analysis, Go debugging, Kubernetes lessons, problem detection strategies, and zero-downtime migrations—discover insights in Detect #9!

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December 19, 2024

Detect #8: Troubleshooting at Netflix; Incidents at Google and Mailchimp; Debugging Go; Lessons from Early YouTube SRE; Adidas' Platform Engineering Journey...

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December 19, 2024

Detect #7: 🧯Incidents at Docker, Bank of America ($), Playstation; 🚨 OTel Data Loss; 🛠️ Detecting Noisy Neighbors with eBPF;  🌩️ Remote Memory Profiling...

In this issue: OTel Data Loss; Detecting Noisy Neighbors with eBPF; Remote Memory Profiling; Incidents at Docker, Bank of America ($), Playstation ... 

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November 5, 2024

Detect #6: 🚨 Kafka data loss; 🛠️ Real debugging stories;  🌩️ All things ebpf; 🧯 Incidents at OpenAI, Anthropic, Hubspot, Google...

Welcome to the latest edition of the only newsletter focused on the art and science of problem detection. Featuring real problem detection & troubleshooting stories, best practices, notable incidents, and architecture tips.

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September 3, 2024

Detect Newsletter #5: 🚨 Hidden Bug of the Month; 🧯Root Cause of Crowdstrike's $5B outage; 🌩️ Incidents at Cloudflare and Github; 🛠️ Memory profiling, kafka monitoring and more

Explore the latest edition of the Detect Problem Detection Newsletter, where we uncover the hidden bug of the month, delve into the root cause behind CrowdStrike’s $5B outage, and analyze incidents at Cloudflare and GitHub. Plus, gain insights into memory profiling, Kafka monitoring, and more cutting-edge topics in software engineering. Stay ahead in your field with our expert analysis and actionable tips

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September 3, 2024

June 2024: 🔥 Virtual Meetup with Xata 🚨 Incidents at Microsoft, Apple, Github; 🛠️ Learn How to Survive Massive Traffic Surges...and more

Welcome to the latest edition of the only newsletter focused on the art and science of problem detection and troubleshooting. In this issue: 🔥 Virtual Meetup Tomorrow (6/3) 🚨 Incidents at Microsoft, Apple, Github; 🛠️ Learn How to Survive Massive Traffic Surges ....and more. 

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September 3, 2024

July 2024: 🔥 Surviving on-call with an ex-Meta SRE;  🚨 Incidents at Google, Cloudflare, Github, and OpenAI; 🛠️ Get a handle on Flaky alerts...and more (Clone)

Welcome to the latest edition of the only newsletter focused on the art and science of problem detection and troubleshooting.

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September 3, 2024

May 2024: New debugging tools, our first live community event, behind the scenes at cloudflare, and more 🛠️🚨

In this issue: our first live community event, Cloudflare's approach to autonomous diagnostics, notable incidents at Braze and Honeycomb, new Kubernetes & NodeJS debugging tools ....and more.

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July 3, 2024

April 2024: The First Newsletter Dedicated to Problem Detection & Troubleshooting 🛠️

In this issue: major hacking plot uncovered by performance analysis, SREcon 2024 americas recap, and notable incidents at notion and cloudflare, a linux tool round up.

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May 28, 2024