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Cloud Service Outages Highlight Resilience Needs in Development

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Cloud service disruptions are increasingly affecting developers and DevOps teams, highlighting the need for resilience in software development workflows. Recent outages, such as those experienced by Anthropic's Claude.ai and GitHub, have underscored the potential impact of cloud service failures on development processes. These incidents have led to calls for better preparedness and resilience strategies to mitigate the effects of future outages. The reliance on cloud-based tools, including CI/CD pipelines, IDEs, and AI-assisted coding platforms, creates a systemic single point of failure. Minor outages can cascade across multiple teams and projects, halting development pipelines and delaying releases. Experts recommend implementing local-first workflows, designing fallbacks and failovers, and caching dependencies to build resilience. Overall, DevOps services have been reliable, but incidents have occurred. For example, Azure DevOps experienced 74 incidents in the first half of 2025, including a significant performance degradation lasting 159 hours. GitHub saw a 58% increase in incidents year-over-year, with 17 major outages totaling over 100 hours of disruption.

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  1. 25.09.2025 16:39 1 articles · 2h ago

    Anthropic's Claude.ai and Console Services Experience System-Wide Outage

    On September 10, 2025, Anthropic's Claude.ai and Console services, along with the associated API, suffered a system-wide outage lasting about 30 minutes. This outage highlighted the potential impact of cloud service failures on development processes and led to calls for better preparedness and resilience strategies. The outage caused users to joke about the downtime, with some comparing it to 'it's compiling' and others noting the need to code like 'a caveman.' This incident, along with other recent outages, has underscored the need for development teams to implement resilience strategies to mitigate the effects of future disruptions.

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