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10 ways businesses can prepare for the next cloud outage

How to prepare for a cloud outage, with 10 steps businesses can take, from mapping hidden dependencies to rehearsing runbooks, testing backups and reading SLA fine print

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10 ways businesses can prepare for the next cloud outage

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Time Zones in Booking Automations for Businesses That Serve Several US States

A remote tutoring company in Denver books students in California and New York. A reminder set for "9 a.m." goes out at 9 a.m. Mountain time to everyone.

  • Store appointments as instant UTC times plus IANA zone name
  • Collect customer's zone at booking, either from address or by asking
  • Use tz database to handle daylight saving changes accurately

·dev.to

I published 109 Chinese surnames as open data — here are the awkward parts

Every few months someone asks me for a "list of Chinese surnames". The answer is always more annoying than it should be. The lists that exist fall into three camps.

  • Individual releases dataset of 109 Chinese surnames
  • Data includes 13 fields per record in JSON and CSV formats
  • Information covers ancestry, notable figures, and rank

·dev.to

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