Data is so fragile. Now that data has moved into the cloud, it’s more accessible, but also more ethereal. We love how easy it is to work with remote data, but we have to be even more careful about creating back up points and fail-safes.Today’s

This Holiday, Hug a Robot

Dec 23rd, 2016 1m 27s

We’re working hard on several episodes coming next year, but we’re taking a month off of publishing, to do season human things. So grab some ‘nog, snuggle a robot, hug your humans, and enjoy this brief message from all of us here at Hard Refres

The EMyth Incident Revisited

Nov 18th, 2016 36m 50s

The EMyth Incident RevisitedThis is the story of how a web development company was really excited to launch an updated version of its own website, and it went wrong in just about the worst way possible.So I was watching this torrent of matrix

4.2.3

Oct 22nd, 2016 32m 41s

Richard Tape of the University of British Columbia runs a massive multi-site WordPress installation infrastructure with tens of thousands of individual websites. A change to the WordPress shortcodes API broke hundreds of them, and Richard had t

The Phantom Subscriptions

Sep 16th, 2016 29m 24s

Pippin Williamson had a big problem: thousands of business owners were using his software to take payments online, but the latest version was charging the wrong customers for subscriptions. Hear how a coding mistake with data from Paypal and St

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