{"slug": "failure-numbers-every-programmer-should-know", "title": "Failure numbers every programmer should know", "summary": "A blog post titled \"Failure numbers every programmer should know\" provides reliability napkin math for hardware, cloud services, and software defects. The post is part of a collection that also covers topics including AI datacenter aesthetics, GPU monitoring, and cloud-era interpretations of Gray's '5 minute rule.' The article aims to equip programmers with essential failure rate benchmarks for building more resilient systems.", "body_md": "# Blog\n\n### safetykit\n\nA small collection of safety demos for human-in-the-loop scripts.\n\n### Failure numbers every programmer should know\n\nReliability napkin math for hardware, cloud services, and software defects.\n\n### Can an AI datacenter be beautiful?\n\nIntelligence too cheap to meter. Industry too cheap to inspire.\n\n### There's been a vibe shift in vibe coding\n\nSenior's eyes are lighting up in delight.\n\n### 20,000 healthy GPUs\n\nHow Modal does active and passive monitoring on hyperscalers and neoclouds.\n\n### The 10 best software podcast episodes I ever heard\n\nHighly recommended listens from a podcast addict.\n\n### Larval stage support engineering: great at what doesn’t scale\n\nThe three core mantras of early support engineering success.\n\n### \"A Foundational Result in Machine Learning\"\n\nDiving into single-layer perceptrons and basic information theory.\n\n### Gray’s ‘5 minute rule’ in the cloud era\n\nIf an item is accessed frequently enough, it should be main memory resident. For 1987 technology, “frequently enough” means about every five minutes.\n\n### Aussie engineers, get to The States!\n\nThe E3 is for you and me.\n\n### More Than DNS: The 14 hour AWS us-east-1 outage\n\nA thorough review of a major cloud outage.\n\n### You should have private evals\n\nEverybody should have a personal set of test prompts to try on LLMs.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/failure-numbers-every-programmer-should-know", "canonical_source": "https://thundergolfer.com/blog/", "published_at": "2026-06-11 23:16:55+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-11 23:49:58.641006+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "ai-startups", "mlops"], "entities": ["Modal", "AWS", "Gray"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/failure-numbers-every-programmer-should-know", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/failure-numbers-every-programmer-should-know.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/failure-numbers-every-programmer-should-know.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/failure-numbers-every-programmer-should-know.jsonld"}}