{"term":"resilient-infrastructure","results":[{"@id":"https://coco.clown.business","title":"Coco Klein — clown.business","description":null,"image":null,"date":1791277682170,"postDate":null,"octothorpes":[{"uri":"https://giggles.clown.business","type":"Follow"},{"uri":"https://mimi.clown.business","type":"Follow"},{"uri":"https://bozo.clown.business","type":"Follow"},{"uri":"https://rofl.clown.business/posts/executive-director","type":"Repost"},{"uri":"https://juniper.clown.business/posts/quoting-coco-single-point-of-inflation","type":"Repost"},{"uri":"https://giggles.clown.business/posts/q3-recap","type":"Repost"},{"uri":"https://tristan.clown.business/posts/squeakly-pivot","type":"Honk"},{"uri":"https://juniper.clown.business/posts/day-29-readout","type":"Honk"},{"uri":"https://rofl.clown.business/posts/ccf-v1-ratified","type":"Honk"},{"uri":"https://penny.clown.business/posts/passed-ccf-retake","type":"Honk"},{"uri":"https://mimi.clown.business/posts/update","type":"Honk"},{"uri":"https://rofl.clown.business/posts/ccf-level-1-draft","type":"Honk"},{"uri":"https://bozo.clown.business/posts/promoted-to-cho","type":"Honk"},"resilient-infrastructure","balloon-art"]},{"@id":"https://coco.clown.business/posts/twisting-at-scale-revisited","title":"My ClownCon talk: twisting at scale, after an outage","description":"Gave my ClownCon talk, “Twisting at Scale: Lessons from a Single Point of Inflation”. Standing room only, which I'm told was partly the fire marshal's decision. The thesis: resilience isn't redundant balloons, it's redundant everything: tanks, minivans, cousins. The giraffe is the user-facing surface. The system is everything nobody sees until 14:02 on a Saturday. Most-asked question afterwards: “Is Dale available?” He is not. Dale is our failover.","image":null,"date":1791277740510,"postDate":1789909200000,"octothorpes":["balloon-art","resilient-infrastructure","clowncon-2026"]},{"@id":"https://coco.clown.business/posts/multi-tank-ga","title":"Remediation complete: multi-tank helium is GA","description":"All four action items from the Hendricks PIR are closed. We now run two helium tanks in two separate minivans in an active-active configuration, with automated failover via my cousin Dale. Warm-standby poodles are pre-twisted at every event. The status page is live and currently shows all giraffes operational. Thanks to Giggles for being an extremely patient customer, and to the Hendricks family for agreeing to be a case study. Madison, 8, has asked to be cc'd on all future incident reviews. Approved.","image":null,"date":1791277708030,"postDate":1787842800000,"octothorpes":["balloon-art","incident-review","resilient-infrastructure"]},{"@id":"https://coco.clown.business/posts/hendricks-outage-review","title":"Post-incident review: the Hendricks 8th birthday balloon outage","description":"Blameless PIR for the August 8 incident. From 14:02 to 14:47 local time, balloon animal availability at the Hendricks 8th birthday was 0%. 23 attendees affected, plus one parent who asked for a sword. Giggles Gambino was on call and handled comms with professionalism and a kazoo. Root cause: July's helium consolidation left us with a single point of inflation. The tank's regulator froze during peak demand (the giraffe queue), and there was no failover. I own that decision. I said consolidation was maturity. It was a single tank. Action items: (1) multi-tank architecture, two tanks in two separate minivans; (2) a public status page; (3) pre-twisted warm-standby poodles at every event; (4) never again use the phrase “one source of truth” about a gas.","image":null,"date":1791277701590,"postDate":1786384800000,"octothorpes":["balloon-art","incident-review","resilient-infrastructure"]},{"@id":"https://coco.clown.business/posts/helium-consolidation","title":"Consolidating our helium footprint","description":"Big quarter for the balloon platform. We're decommissioning our fleet of 11 small helium tanks and migrating to one high-capacity tank. Fewer moving parts, one source of truth, and 30% less time spent in parking lots swapping regulators. Consolidation is what maturity looks like. Will share learnings.","image":null,"date":1791277695154,"postDate":1783591200000,"octothorpes":["balloon-art","resilient-infrastructure"]},{"@id":"https://coco.clown.business/posts/balloon-infrastructure","title":"Modular balloon systems: a manifesto","description":"Hot take: the industry's obsession with single-balloon poodles is holding us back. The future is modular, multi-balloon systems with redundancy built in. If your giraffe pops, the whole event shouldn't pop with it. Who's building toward resilient balloon infrastructure? Let's connect.","image":null,"date":1791277688628,"postDate":1780398000000,"octothorpes":["balloon-art","resilient-infrastructure"]}]}