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Stripe's engineering team has pulled back the curtain on a clever approach to one of infrastructure's most stressful problems: database failures. By modeling their global systems as a graph and pairing that with state machines, Stripe can now compute and execute recovery plans automatically, removing the frantic human scramble from what used to be a very bad day on call.
Shifting gears, Spain is bracing for one of the better solar eclipses in years this August, and Telefónica isn't leaving anything to chance. The telecom upgraded nearly two thousand eight hundred network sites and assessed more than four hundred observation points specifically to handle the surge of people who will absolutely be filming the whole thing on their phones.
And finally, a piece worth watching for anyone who builds on the web. A developer has published a post arguing that Rails is simply done, not broken, not dying, just complete, in the way a mature tool eventually stops needing to change. It's a quieter kind of eulogy, and it's sparking exactly the kind of conversation the Rails community tends to have well.
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