#operational-challenges

#operational-challenges

Tse was not raised cooking Japanese food and, in preparation for opening The Azuki Room, travelled to Tokyo to train at the Japan Culinary Institute. He told me a bit about this process, but where his resilience has really been tested is in London. The Azuki Room was due to open in 2025 but suffered a series of unfortunate events: the site was occupied by squatters, the premises were damaged, stock and equipment were stolen, and the specialist sake Tse bought in Japan was consumed.

ArgoCD's UI and CLI are designed for users with extensive technical background, which limits access to GitOps workflows for less technical stakeholders. This increases reliance on DevOps engineers.

Carnival Cruise Line's IT infrastructure must combat unique challenges like saltwater corrosion, requiring regular upgrades to maintain optimal functionality during necessary dry-dock periods.

AI doesn't fail because of the tech. It fails because there's no business case, no clean data, or no one truly accountable for results.

Event-driven architectures often fail under pressure due to retries, backpressure, and startup latency, particularly during traffic spikes like Black Friday.

Datacenter outages are less frequent but human error persists, with 66-80% of major outages linked to human factors, challenging overall reliability.