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And what happens when the box those Perl scripts live on goes down, or loses connectivity?
by rosser 8y ago
And what happens when the box those Perl scripts live on goes down, or loses connectivity?
- stonogo 8y agoThe same thing that happens when PagerDuty's AWS availability zone goes down or loses connectivity. Exactly like it did in June. PagerDuty is not magical.
- rosser 8y agoI don't believe I said, or implied, it was. I also don't think it's particularly apples-to-apples to compare a box with a couple NIH Perl scripts and a service with $100mm+ in annual revenues for whom that's their sole job. I promise you, they aren't just in a single AZ.
- stonogo 8y agoNo, what you did was infer "a couple perl scripts" meant "a box", as though it's not possible to geodistribute perl scripts. The entire point of the post you replied to was expressing amazement that this task could even warrant someone's entire job, because in many, many IT departments around the world, monitoring is both taken seriously and not nearly as expensive as PagerDuty. It's a valid opinion, and your faux-Socratic response came off as needlessly condescending, that's all. And if you read June's outage report, they are in multiple AZs... and it didn't help.