PIPEFAIL: How A Missing Shell Option Slowed Cloudflare Down
- Alex Forster tl;dr: "Between 20:10 and 20:40 UTC on December 16, 2021, web requests served by Cloudflare were artificially delayed by up to five seconds before being processed. This post tells the story of how a missing shell option called “pipefail” slowed Cloudflare down."featured in #307
That Simple Script Is Still Someone's Bad Day
tl;dr: "This gets used as an opportunity to write one of those awful corporate outage bulletins which is more about hawking the company's wares than getting to the bottom of a problem. And, in it, the key is "we forgot pipefail".featured in #306
The Day Of A New Command-Line Interface: Shell
- Bjorn Stahl tl;dr: "This article continues the long-lost series on how to migrate away from terminal protocols as the main building block for command-line and text-dominant user interfaces." The value proposition and motivation is still that "such a critical part of computing should not be limited to device restrictions set in place some 50-70 years ago."featured in #306
Developers Can Run Bash Shell and User-mode Ubuntu Linux Binaries on Windows 10
- Scott Hanselmanfeatured in #77.1