🔥 A lithium-ion battery fire at X's Hillsboro, Oregon data center drew a major emergency response last week, raising new concerns about data center infrastructure and risk.

Key context:
🧯 The blaze was contained to one battery room but filled the space with smoke
🧠 It's not clear if server operations were disrupted, X hasn't commented
📦 This facility absorbed racks from X's now-closed Sacramento data center, once part of a redundancy triangle with Portland and Atlanta
🚨 With fewer backup options, infrastructure failures like this carry more weight

Meanwhile, Musk's xAI operation has faced scrutiny for sidestepping pollution permitting at its Memphis facility by installing 30+ methane-powered turbines, drawing criticism from already overburdened communities.

From battery fire risks to unchecked emissions, these aren't just ops issues — they're strategic and ethical liabilities.

#InfraMatters #DataCenters #xAI #ElonMusk #TechOps #EnvironmentalJustice

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-x-datacenter-fire/

PCIe 7.0 = SPEED DEMON. ⚡ Expected in 2025 with *double* the bandwidth of PCIe 6.0. Time to future-proof your rigs for insane performance! 🚀 #NextGenTech #PCIe7 #PCBuilders #TechNews #TechOps

Hey y'all! Any SREs out there?

Any *aspirational* SREs out there?

Maybe there's a team at work who they call "SRE" and you're really not sure what they do if it's not infra/platform/deploy?

A coworker is interested in switching careers to SRE and asked me for reading recommendations. So I put together the most solid top-five for me, from my experience and perspective of doing Ops for 30 years and SRE for 12:

https://www.sounding.com/2024/10/03/five-reads-for-learning-sre/

#SRE #ContinuousLearning #ResilienceEngineering #ReliabilityEngineering #DevOps #TechOps #HumanError #ComplexSystems #SystemsThinking

⚙️ Un épisode éclairant sur la #cybersécurité opérationnelle avec l'expert Camille Felx-Leduc !

Au menu:
✅ Architecture de référence pour sécuriser les technologies opérationnelles
✅ Défis de visibilité et solutions passives
✅ Gestion des accès à distance
✅ Séparation des annuaires TI/TO
✅ Importance de la documentation

#CybersécuritéIndustrielle #TechOps #TO

🎧 Web: https://bit.ly/4bpICN8
🎧 Spotify: https://bit.ly/4bpICN8
🎧 YouTube: https://bit.ly/3WrEhVJ

Автоматическое тестирование ускорило разработку в 50 раз. Сказка от создателей FoundationDB

Автоматическое тестирование по сравнению с обычным, источник Стартап Antithesis Operations LLC создан разработчиками известной системы FoundationDB . Они говорят , что между двумя продуктами много общего: «Когда в 2010 году мы взялись за создание масштабируемой, отказоустойчивой распределённой базы данных с ACID-транзакциями, большинство людей не думали, что такое возможно. Вот и сейчас многие не верят в полную автоматизацию тестирования». Сейчас они уверены, что произвели революцию в разработке программного обеспечения. Они сделали полностью автономную и детерминированную систему автоматического тестирования. Внедрение системы в их собственной компании ускорило разработку в 50 раз, потому что программисты теперь думают только о коде и не боятся ошибок. 100% багов выявляется автоматически. Вручную писать тесты не надо, никаких тестировщиков, SDET и QA. Двое-трое программистов выполняют работу за 100−150 человек. Настоящая сказка!

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/800009/

#ruvds_статьи #Antithesis #автоматическое_тестирование #теория_ограничений #поиск_багов #QA #обеспечение_качества #TechOps #DevelopmentDriven_Approach #TDD #bug_bounty #CAPтеорема #Palantir #FoundationDB #ACIDтранзакции #sometimes_assertions #вероятностные_утверждения #детерминированное_тестирование

For aspiring StigAviation enthusiasts. This appeared in my feed more than once since United released a presser yesterday, so here's the direct source.

United's Calibrate Technician Pathway Program
gives "U.S. Army reservists and students from three prominent aviation maintenance schools a direct pathway to lucrative careers as technicians at the airline."

#UnitedAirlines #aircraftmaintenance #aircrafttechnicians #stigaviation #airlinejobs #aviationjobs #techops #airlinerecruiting #students

https://www.united.com/en/us/newsroom/announcements/cision-125300

Wow, the search performance on #CoSocial right now with Mastodon 4.2 is sweet af. Thank you #TechOps for the great work!

The #RWCMD #TECHOPS team have escaped Wales and are off to the big smoke for the #PLASA show. Always good to catch up with the people and tech behind our industry.

The 5+ hours in the car ... Not so much ...

Dev[Sec]OpsDays is coming to #Prague again in May. Why don't you join me? https://talkweb.eu/openweb/3775/

#devOps #devsecops #ThreatModeling #Prague #techops #platform #sre

Today's fun is pgaudit. Such a simple little tool, with many possible configuration combinations. Combined with a hearty log line prefix definition, you can know who, what, when, and where. Will still have to employ a human for the why.

#postgresql #logs #techops

We’ve got Level 4 Technical Operator apprenticeships at various sites across the UK including Salford, starting in Sept 2023 - all the deets are here https://careershub.bbc.co.uk/members/modules/job/detail.php?jobboard=tribepad&c=jobalerts&record=63587 #apprenticeship #apprentice #techops #technicaloperator #BBC

Should probably post something to start 😃

I'm Jen, currently a lab analyst, working on a MS in computer science.

Interests include:
#gaming
#horror (especially B-rated stuff)
#sff
#music (old school #goth)
#dragoncon #techops
#rubberducks
#pottery
#german #gaelic #asl

Be kind - the anxieties can be strong with this one!

The year is almost out, but there is still some time left to make a donation to LOPSA! Because we are a non-profit, you can write off the donation on your taxes in the US. Don’t let the opportunity pass! Click the Donate button on LOPSA.org and make it happen before the year-end. Thanks to everyone who has ever donated, and a super big thanks to those who have donated in 2018. I hope everyone had a great holiday season and has a great New Year.

#LOPSA #sysadmin #techops #devops #donate