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I feel like this whole year has served as one big reminder of how fragile the internet really is...
by jakejarvis 7y ago
I feel like this whole year has served as one big reminder of how fragile the internet really is...
- pdelgallego 7y ago2017 S3 outage was a big reminder as well https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/ https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/
- joshuaturner 7y agoThe great AWS crash of 2017 convinced me to distribute a bit more, thankfully
- ilaksh 7y agoIt's only fragile when you centralize all of the information in giant websites. It didn't use to be like that. And now there are a ton of decentralization technologies that we should be taking advantage of, but almost everyone ignores them. For example https://medium.com/@alexberegszaszi/mango-git-completely-decentralised-7aef8bcbcfe6 https://medium.com/@alexberegszaszi/mango-git-completely-dec...
- jakejarvis 7y agoAbsolutely. I'm (cautiously) optimistic that some good can come from all this downtime in that sense.
- noir_lord 7y agoIt certainly helps make the argument not to move some stuff to the cloud, there is still a case for on premise as always the answer is "it depends".
- pier25 7y agoWell, the internet didn't stop working, so it's no so fragile after all. You probably mean centralized internet based services.