Sam Newman breaks down the recent AWS outage to show how even the biggest cloud giants can trip over hidden dependencies and over-engineered complexity. By tracing the outage’s root causes, he highlights why modern cloud setups are fragile and where teams tend to slip up when they assume “managed” means “failure-proof.”
He then dishes out practical tips for devs and architects: embrace simplicity, decouple services, and build fault isolation into every layer. The upshot? With smarter design and a focus on resilience, you can keep your own systems running fast and reliable—even when AWS hiccups.
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