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The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami

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329 points zdkaster | 2 comments | 28 Aug 25 04:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.493s | source
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prmoustache ◴[28 Aug 25 06:29 UTC] No.45049089[source]▶
Is "brownout" a common or standard term in the industry? First time I see it.
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1. habitue ◴[28 Aug 25 07:34 UTC] No.45049484[source]▶
We did this at stripe when deprecating TLS 1.0, and called it a brown out (I don't know the origin of the term in software).

You do it when you have a bunch of automated integrations with you and you have to break them. The lights arent on at the client: their dev teams are focused on other things, so you have to wake them up to a change that's happening (either by causing their alerting to go off, or their customers to complain because their site is broken)

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2. dkdcio ◴[28 Aug 25 08:45 UTC] No.45049906[source]▶
have also heard this as doing a “scream test” — turn it off, see who screams about it