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Near-Disasters: A Tale in 4 Parts
Doug Hughes, D. E. Shaw Research, LLC
Occasionally one is the victim of a series of misadventures and failures so wrenching, potentially devastating, and yet completely unrelated that one is compelled to try to extract lessons from the fractured dust of mayhem. This is that tale. Where correlation is impossible, at least we can try to learn something. Murphy was an optimist.
Doug Hughes, D. E. Shaw Research, LLC
Doug Hughes is the manager of all things infrastructure at D. E. Shaw Research, a bio-technology research firm located in Manhattan. He was intimately involved in the specifications, design, and implementation of the company's current built-from-scratch datacenter.
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author = {Doug Hughes},
title = {{Near-Disasters}: A Tale in 4 Parts},
year = {2012},
address = {San Diego, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = dec
}
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