Manton discusses Micro.blog downtime and issues with his database servers. How attentive to phone calls should you be in the middle of the night if you run a server? Daniel and Manton talk about learning from mistakes and instituting changes to prevent repeats of the same problem. Then, they debate whether it’s warranted for the United States to require ByteDance to sell TikTok. Finally, can you systematically prevent corruption of social or regular media?
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Links:
- Amateur hour — Manton’s short post admitting a server mistake.
- MySQL — Popular database server software.
- HR 815 — Text of bill requiring ByteDance to sell TikTok.
- TikTok bill not xenophobic — Manton’s blog post about TikTok.
