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The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Hit reply and share it with me.Today, we cover:<ol><li>Cloudflare’s latest outage proves dangers of global configuration changes (again) Deja vu: a large Cloudflare outage caused by an instantly rolled-out global config change – two we…</li></ol>

Also: inadequate capacity planning at AWS, how the engineering team at Oxide uses LLMs, Linux now supports Rust in the kernel, and more

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The Pulse #156: Beware of global configuration changes in large systems

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The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Hit reply and share it with me.