Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain
Summary
A technical blog post by Lorin Hochstein analyzing a GitHub outage through the lens of autoscaling, Istio sidecars, and policy misconfiguration. It discusses why autoscaling can fail to reflect true load, introduces the concept of the component substitution fallacy, and emphasizes considering end-to-end interactions and load testing rather than focusing on a single faulty component.