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Or maybe it's because the internet is tendentially becoming just a few companies' data centers? Afaik Twitter moved to GCP a few months ago. Maybe this is anoth

Or maybe it's because the internet is tendentially becoming just a few companies' data centers? Afaik Twitter moved to GCP a few months ago. Maybe this is another Google outage?

azurezyq 7y ago
Less likely since it looks fine from GCP status page. Hmm, it seems that Twitter already figured it out, configuration change issues again.
- marenkay 7y ago
  Probably because we all use Kubernetes and YAML files and 100% of configuration failures are "oh shit, I used two spaces instead of 4, we're fucked".
  - Jach 7y ago
    Something like this is my bet too, there was a recent post somewhere called something like "why all outages are due to a configuration change". There are monocultures in site reliability ops for big companies, "configuration over code" but with heavy automation too. From my outside view it seems there's a tradeoff when you do that between more frequent smaller issues and less frequent bigger issues. Also reminds me of Google's move away from eventual consistency because with their infrastructure they can make a CP system highly available in practice... except when it isn't, due to a botched configuration change.
ionforce 7y ago
> tendentially Is this a word? You don't mean tangentially? I'm having a crisis right now.
- t0astbread 7y ago
  Is it not? Sorry if I got it wrong, English isn't my first language. dict.cc (my source of truth for English vocab) says it's a word: https://www.dict.cc/?s=tendentially https://www.dict.cc/?s=tendentially
  - thfuran 7y ago
    It's apparently a word but I'd say it's quite uncommon. I played around with google ngram viewer and had a hard time coming up with a word that is less common. But I finally came up with "astrophotographic". E: "unsurpassingly" is way down there too
    - edflsafoiewq 7y ago
      It's very common in Biblical criticism (transliterated from German).
    - t0astbread 7y ago
      It's common in German, so I figured it wouldn't be uncommon in English. Oh well :)
- nullstyle 7y ago
  https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tendential https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tendential
- snazz 7y ago
  https://www.thefreedictionary.com/tendentially https://www.thefreedictionary.com/tendentially Probably meant tangentially anyway.
  - EForEndeavour 7y ago
    "Tangentially" would make less sense. More likely, they meant to convey a present-participle form of "the internet tends to be consolidated."

Or maybe it's because the internet is tendentially becoming just a few companies' data centers? Afaik Twitter moved to GCP a few months ago. Maybe this is another Google outage?

azurezyq 7y ago

Less likely since it looks fine from GCP status page. Hmm, it seems that Twitter already figured it out, configuration change issues again.

marenkay 7y ago
Probably because we all use Kubernetes and YAML files and 100% of configuration failures are "oh shit, I used two spaces instead of 4, we're fucked".
- Jach 7y ago
  Something like this is my bet too, there was a recent post somewhere called something like "why all outages are due to a configuration change". There are monocultures in site reliability ops for big companies, "configuration over code" but with heavy automation too. From my outside view it seems there's a tradeoff when you do that between more frequent smaller issues and less frequent bigger issues. Also reminds me of Google's move away from eventual consistency because with their infrastructure they can make a CP system highly available in practice... except when it isn't, due to a botched configuration change.

ionforce 7y ago

> tendentially Is this a word? You don't mean tangentially? I'm having a crisis right now.

t0astbread 7y ago
Is it not? Sorry if I got it wrong, English isn't my first language. dict.cc (my source of truth for English vocab) says it's a word: https://www.dict.cc/?s=tendentially https://www.dict.cc/?s=tendentially
- thfuran 7y ago
  It's apparently a word but I'd say it's quite uncommon. I played around with google ngram viewer and had a hard time coming up with a word that is less common. But I finally came up with "astrophotographic". E: "unsurpassingly" is way down there too
  - edflsafoiewq 7y ago
    It's very common in Biblical criticism (transliterated from German).
  - t0astbread 7y ago
    It's common in German, so I figured it wouldn't be uncommon in English. Oh well :)
nullstyle 7y ago
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tendential https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tendential
snazz 7y ago
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/tendentially https://www.thefreedictionary.com/tendentially Probably meant tangentially anyway.
- EForEndeavour 7y ago
  "Tangentially" would make less sense. More likely, they meant to convey a present-participle form of "the internet tends to be consolidated."