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This is a problem of "monoculture" dependencies and failure to implement HA by using multiple services. All Github releases are down, atom downloads are down an
by BrailleHunting 10y ago
This is a problem of "monoculture" dependencies and failure to implement HA by using multiple services. All Github releases are down, atom downloads are down and so on. Companies, including Amazon, should be using other CDNs for HA purposes, even if NIH.
It's a similar mistake of making DNS a dependency for monitoring/control infrastructure when DNS is down.
- ghaff 10y agoAssuming that it actually makes business sense to do so. There are certainly cases where you can make a perfectly rational business decision to depend on someone else's services and you're OK with your uptime not being any better than their uptime.
- snuxoll 10y ago> It's a similar mistake of making DNS a dependency for monitoring/control infrastructure when DNS is down. This one is relatively easy to "fix" at least, it's nothing having multiple DNS providers for public records can't handle as well as ensuring redundancy for your internal DNS services. Bonus points if you run your own recursive resolver so you aren't dependent on some other party not screwing up somehow.