Podcast Appearances
And that downtime, short though it is, can be incredibly frustrating if it happens at an undue time, like when something is due an hour ago.
Yeah, that sounds like quite a complicated thing to do.
Well, what did you think about that very shocking stat that before in the siloed environment, folks just did one upgrade per year and now it's constant, right?
Did that shock you as much as it shocked me?
I'm also thinking about is automation for something super duper critical?
Does it always reduce risk or does it just change where humans need to pay attention to?
And his examples about like emergency call reliability sort of resonated with me.
And then even the complexity around like preventing DDoS attacks.
I'm wondering how like if the average person has any idea or even like the average employee at even a tech company like ours understands how much goes into making sure that
a minute long outage doesn't happen behind the scenes.
It's kind of crazy.
That's true.
But what did you think about the organizational change from vertical to horizontal?
That's quite a major restructuring.
That's true.
And I mean, you raise a good point.
When he talked about teams optimizing their own silo instead of the whole network, it does make sense.