# Failure numbers every programmer should know

> Source: <https://thundergolfer.com/blog/>
> Published: 2026-06-11 23:16:55+00:00

# Blog

### safetykit

A small collection of safety demos for human-in-the-loop scripts.

### Failure numbers every programmer should know

Reliability napkin math for hardware, cloud services, and software defects.

### Can an AI datacenter be beautiful?

Intelligence too cheap to meter. Industry too cheap to inspire.

### There's been a vibe shift in vibe coding

Senior's eyes are lighting up in delight.

### 20,000 healthy GPUs

How Modal does active and passive monitoring on hyperscalers and neoclouds.

### The 10 best software podcast episodes I ever heard

Highly recommended listens from a podcast addict.

### Larval stage support engineering: great at what doesn’t scale

The three core mantras of early support engineering success.

### "A Foundational Result in Machine Learning"

Diving into single-layer perceptrons and basic information theory.

### Gray’s ‘5 minute rule’ in the cloud era

If an item is accessed frequently enough, it should be main memory resident. For 1987 technology, “frequently enough” means about every five minutes.

### Aussie engineers, get to The States!

The E3 is for you and me.

### More Than DNS: The 14 hour AWS us-east-1 outage

A thorough review of a major cloud outage.

### You should have private evals

Everybody should have a personal set of test prompts to try on LLMs.
