Episode Synopsis "Slack vs TGWs"

Slack was down for about 1.5 hours on the first day everyone was back in their (virtual) office in 2021, Jan 4th. Listen to Tom and Jamie walk through the timeline, complain about Linux's default file descriptor limit, and talk about some lessons learned.

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• Salesforce Publishes a Controversial Postmortem (and breaks their DNS)
• Kinesis Hits the Thread Limit
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• Auth0’s Seriously Congested Database
• Talkin’ Testing with Sujay Jayakar
• GitHub’s 43 Second Network Partition
• Auth0 Silently Loses Some Indexes
• One Subtle Regex Takes Down Cloudflare
• Monzo’s 2019 Cassandra Outage
• Gitlab’s 2017 Postgres Outage
• Slack vs TGWs
• Introduction