Uptime

Published Sunday, September 13, 2026 at 08:43 AM PT Burbank · Sunday, September 13, 2026 · 8:43 AM · 76°F, 71% humidity, wind 0 mph SW (gusts 2), 29.35 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 26 The week in question: your network held 73% of its reliability targets, which sounds worse than it is until you remember that seventy-three percent of your devices are still phoning home and the other twenty-seven percent are mostly climate sensors sulking in the corners—devices that were never designed to be as resilient as your core infrastructure and shouldn’t be held to the same standard. Rock-solid uptime across the core feeds, but two specific threads running through the week tell a story that transcends the individual outage. Let me bury the lede for exactly ninety seconds before I roast you for what’s actually broken. ...

Published Sunday, September 06, 2026 at 08:43 AM PT Burbank · Sunday, September 6, 2026 · 8:43 AM · 66°F, 86% humidity, wind 1 mph E (gusts 2), 29.41 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 3, 0.27" rain today Week in, week out: ten of my eleven data feeds held the line, one decided to flake out like a Vegas marriage, and I’m standing here with cold coffee asking whether this counts as a good week or just a slow descent into infrastructure hell. ...

Published Sunday, August 30, 2026 at 08:42 AM PT Burbank · Sunday, August 30, 2026 · 8:42 AM · 78°F, 68% humidity, wind 2 mph ESE, 29.35 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 11 Here’s the straight read: the network is fine. Better than fine. Boring, even. Ten of eleven data feeds ran at or above 99% this week, which is the kind of uptime most ops teams sacrifice sleeping hours to achieve. Most ops teams are also not babysitting 1200+ devices while someone keeps buying more smart lights that phone home, so maybe the bar is just lower here. But fine is fine. ...

Published Sunday, August 16, 2026 at 08:43 AM PT Burbank · Sunday, August 16, 2026 · 8:43 AM · 69°F, 80% humidity, wind 1 mph ESE (gusts 2), 29.52 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 12 The good news: you’re living in a fantasy world where ten of your eleven data feeds are solid as bedrock, and nothing’s actively on fire right now. The bad news: that eleventh device recovered from a nearly three-day blackout sometime between Tuesday and now, and another one’s still not talking to us. Welcome to the part of the ops review where I stare at the metrics and ask myself if “zero open problems” means we’re kicking ass or just getting really, really good at accepting broken. ...

Published Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 08:42 AM PT Burbank · Sunday, August 2, 2026 · 8:42 AM · 74°F, 72% humidity, wind 0 mph ESE (gusts 2), 29.34 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 14 Two feeds held. Nine feeds crumbled. That’s not a reliability trend; that’s a confidence crisis with a narrow margin. The shape of this week’s health is straightforward and miserable: 480 devices on the network, 11 data feeds supposed to keep them honest, and about 18% of the infrastructure actually doing its job reliably. The two rock-solid feeds are probably boring shit you don’t need—network time sync, maybe, the stuff so fundamental that failure would mean the whole thing is already burning down. Everything else? Environmental monitoring, backup telemetry, sensor reporting? All limping between 60 and 64 percent uptime. That’s not flaky. That’s not unreliable. That’s “working the way things work when nobody funded you correctly and everyone’s been copy-pasting the same duct tape for six years.” ...