Reclaiming Control: Why Val Town Switched to Better Auth
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Val Town moved to Better Auth to regain control over user data and sessions after outgrowing Clerk's restrictive and occasionally unreliable architecture.
Service Reliability
Uptime, SLAs, fault tolerance, resilience engineering, and the challenges of maintaining reliable distributed services at scale.
Reading List
GitHub Services Face Widespread Degradation Due to Infrastructure Issues
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GitHub is working to resolve widespread service degradations and infrastructure-related failures affecting core features like Search, Actions, and Copilot.
Fixing Claude Code: Resolving Recent Quality Regressions
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Anthropic has fixed three technical issues that caused recent quality drops in Claude Code and is upgrading its testing processes to prevent future regressions.
Claude Services Degraded Amid Ongoing System Disruptions
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Claude services are currently facing degraded performance and elevated errors as part of a recurring pattern of technical instability in April 2026.
Claude.ai Outage: Anthropic Investigates Widespread Login and API Errors
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Claude.ai and its suite of API and developer services are currently experiencing a major outage primarily affecting user logins.
AWS US-EAST-1 Incident: NLB Health Subsystem and DNS Issues, Recovery Underway
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An internal NLB health-monitoring failure and a DNS issue triggered widespread AWS US-EAST-1 disruptions, now largely recovering with EC2 launch throttles easing and backlogs clearing.
We Normalized Broken Software—and Physics Won’t Bail Us Out
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We normalized broken software and tried to paper it over with AI and hardware, but physics and fundamentals are catching up.
Postmortem: Three Overlapping Infra Bugs Degraded Claude—Fixes Shipped, Evals and Tooling Upgraded
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Three infrastructure bugs—not load or demand—degraded Claude; rollbacks and a shift to exact top‑k fixed them, and Anthropic is upgrading evaluations and debugging while asking for user feedback.