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4 Instructive Postmortems on Data Downtime and Loss

More than a decade ago, the concept of the ‘blameless’ postmortem changed how tech companies recognize failures at scale. John Allspaw, who coined the term during his tenure at Etsy, argued postmortems were all about controlling our natural reaction to…

A Nose for Technology: Scent Reaches Virtual Reality

While 90% of the information transmitted to our brain is visual, it might be thought that, in purely arithmetic terms, the other senses are residual. However, the sense of smell possesses unique characteristics. To begin with, information from the other…