I recently returned from Velocity: New York, and I have been thinking quite a bit about how so many of the talks seemed eerily related to what I have been focused on at work here at Verizon Digital Media Services; namely reliability and how to prevent system failures. Now, I am sure a lot of that was simply something similar to the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon at work (where you hear again about something soon after you first learn about it), but there is still something comforting about knowing others are facing similar problems. I have reliability on my mind, and I am seeing it everywhere.

Last night, starting just after 1800 PT, we experienced an outage with our small object platform, the platform responsible for the acceleration and delivery of many of the Internet’s busiest sites.