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Other things get prioritized.

• hartror 16y ago
  Like not having a massive downtime that gives their users a reason to try out some massive social network's offering that has already started eating their lunch? Oh wait no they didn't prioritize that. My point is, and perhaps the down vote indicates I didn't make it well, that monitoring and alerts are extremely important for any startup. They admit as much in the article, had they known sooner there wouldn't have been any down time. It isn't an excuse to say it got lost in the crush (not that they are trying to use it as an excuse, they're being very upfront and admitting fault). We have neither the load or the team they do and we have comprehensive monitoring and alerts across our infrastructure as part of the SOE that each server gets. Perhaps we prioritized monitoring higher than them as we are a small team? And I bet they have prioritized monitoring now. Now where did I put the key to that barn door?
  • metageek 16y ago
    Now where did I put the key to that barn door? It's in the saddlebags.
  • binspace 16y ago
    Humans don't judge probability and risk very well. It's hard to forsee the future and problems. Hindsight is 20/20. My bag of cliches is exhausted. Maybe there were other things the engineers were working on that brought definite (as in 100%) benefit. Maybe there's a good product/consulting opportunity here. Everybody needs monitoring, but it takes time and resources. I agree, that they are focusing on it now, because it happened.