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Netflix is down
- falcor84 9y agoSite started just returning 504s for me. And the status page shows: "We are currently experiencing issues streaming on all devices. We are working to resolve the problem. We apologize for any inconvenience."
- yohann305 9y agoMy overall feeling with Netflix is that with such a huge load you'd expect them to go down more often. Good job Netflix team
- nodesocket 9y agoThis is directly because of Reed Hastings policy of paying way above market rate, firing fast, and treating the company like a professional sports team. As a result, NetFlix has some of the best ops & devops engineers.
- projectileboy 9y agoYou might be interested in learning more about how they achieve this: http://principlesofchaos.org http://principlesofchaos.org Also: http://www.oreilly.com/webops-perf/free/chaos-engineering.csp http://www.oreilly.com/webops-perf/free/chaos-engineering.cs...
- slumberlust 9y agoTWSS?
- rexaliquid 9y agoNow how am I going to watch Olympus Has Fallen?
- khc 9y agoWhen I load that page, it briefly says "Netflix is up" before the message is replaced with "We are currently experiencing issues streaming on all devices.". That seems to suggest that other breakage can cause the status page to show incorrect results.
- jmkni 9y agoYeah that seems to be baked into the HTML, then they run something client side (when the JS finally loads, took forever) to actually go and check.
- contravariant 9y agoSeems a bit of an odd design choice (especially since it would keep saying everything is fine when it fails).
- rconti 9y agoWell, from a corporate standpoint, it's better than saying things are down when they're not. Though it seems like it should just be a missing datapoint until it can ascertain true status.
- sli 9y agoSomething similar, but worse, happened during that fairly-recent AWS outage, didn't it? Everything showing green because it defaults to green. Netflix's message doesn't update correctly unless I enable some extra scripts in uMatrix. That's no good for a status page.
- kvinnako 9y agoHopefully they will give a public post mortem report with lessons learned.
- agharris73 9y agoThis is happening all too often these days. Right when I was about to watch a Fuller House episode.
- crb002 9y agoLike the time John Deere took them out in a region by doing a DynamoDB stress test ;)
- qeternity 9y agoSource?
- dutchbrit 9y agoWe should expect a small baby boom in roughly 9 months.
- felipellrocha 9y ago"Seems like netflix is down. Should we skip to just chill?"
- NotQuantum 9y agoI would expect the opposite effect, given "netflix and chill"'s connotation
- Yhippa 9y agoAs of 3:30 EST we're at about 30 minutes of downtime since this was posted on HN. We're still at 6 nines of reliability which is damn impressive.
- jason_pomerleau 9y agoI believe 6 nines allows for just 30 seconds or so of downtime per year.
- uhhhhhhh 9y agoYup 99.9999% ("six nines") 31.5 seconds from wikipedia.
- jasonjayr 9y agoInteresting -- Hulu recently had a multi-hour outage/issue with their login mechanism a few evenings ago ... https://twitter.com/hulu_support/status/955973393739862016 https://twitter.com/hulu_support/status/955973393739862016
- carlosrg 9y agoThe PlayStation Network had an outage too, just two days ago.
- stretchwithme 9y agoIt's working here in San Jose.
- teilo 9y agoSeems to be limited to devices. In-browser still working fine.
- hamstercat 9y agoI read this as "Netflix is closing down". Never been happier that I misread something.
- ben_w 9y agoHuh, this seems to have happened just after I logged out of my partner’s free trial account.
- uhhhhhhh 9y agochaos monkey finally won !
- krylon 9y agoWorks for me. I'm watching Netflix as I am writing these words. Admittedly, I had to hit reload a few times, but once the stream started, it worked flawlessly. (Located in Germany, that might make a difference.)
- krylon 9y agoAs somebody else pointed out, it was a browser vs. device thing. Tried watching on my tablet a little later, did not work.
- focusgroup0 9y agoLooking forward to reading the postmortem.
- forgot-my-pw 9y agoThey're filming a new series about hacking and they did it in Netflix data center to cut costs.