Trees and woods
If a tree falls while nobody is watching, does it make a sound? More to the point, if nobody is ever going to those woods again, does anybody care?
Huawei Cloud has developed a network monitoring tool that, when used in production on three of its own regions, was able to observe more of its infrastructure than existing tools, and revealed issues that previously evaded human efforts. The tool is called RD-Probe and was detailed in a paper [PDF] presented on Tuesday at the …
I can see a use for this. When your primary link goes down and you switch to the backup only to find the backup has had problems for months.
Kerplunk-damm - the sound a vehicle makes when taking a diversion in a forest which hits a tree which silently fell across the track.