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The Odds of Surviving Your Own IT Portfolio (opens the original)
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33% of complex IT projects cost at least 1.6x the original budget. 10% hit 4x. A few reach 100x to 280x. These numbers come from Bent Flyvbjerg’s dataset of 5,392 IT project outcomes, the largest ever assembled. For a person whose job consists of greenlighting these projects, they spell trouble.For a consultancy running hundreds of engagements, these odds are absorbable. No single project is existential. The average return is positive. The portfolio diversifies the risk. This is what Nassim Tale
An Open Letter to the AWS Networking Team (opens the original)
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If you operate a multi-region AWS network with inline security inspection, every cross-region connection is inspected twice: once in the source region and once in the destination. This routing symmetry and dual regional deployment is an implicit requirement, if you want to keep your core route tables tidy and deterministic, while being able to do summarisation, regional traffic steering, and drop traffic based on address blocks (e.g. drop non-production traffic on production segments)Transit Gat
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