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Facebook, Google, Apple, Cloudflare, Azure, Amazon, WhatsApp, and we have noticed smaller bits of routing weirdness like servers in Los Angeles not being able t
by api 7y ago
Facebook, Google, Apple, Cloudflare, Azure, Amazon, WhatsApp, and we have noticed smaller bits of routing weirdness like servers in Los Angeles not being able to hit GitHub for a few hours a few days ago.
This is more like 6-8, not e. It's definitely odd.
One non-conspiracy explanation I can imagine is that maybe all these big providers have a bunch of hidden dependencies on each other.
- 3JPLW 7y agoI agree, this is a bigger and really dense cluster, but remember that e is just the average (mean) cluster size. There will be clusters bigger than it. My point is simply that our intuition of randomness biases us to see meaning in clusters when there is none in the first place. In other words, we need to intentionally shift our prior on how unlikely this event is. Yes, it's still unlikely, but it's not as unlikely as you would think.
- inlined 7y agoApple documents their dependencies on other Cloud providers. Facebook has its own DCs but I think they’re sometimes colocated with cloud providers’.
- the-dude 7y agoBut the outages are sequential, not simultaneous
- api 7y agoThey are very dense compared to the usual rate.