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I agree, but I think there's also a bit more to it. Thinking specifically of cloud infrastructure, if you run your systems on infrastructure that is also used
by gred 6y ago
I agree, but I think there's also a bit more to it.
Thinking specifically of cloud infrastructure, if you run your systems on infrastructure that is also used by your largest partners and customers, then your outages will tend to coincide, so (a) nobody cares that you're down because they're down too, and (b) even if they did care, they're busy enough worrying about their own systems that they have less time to come at you.
An example would be a company specializing in Shopify "apps" running their systems on GCP because that's where Shopify runs... if GCP goes down then Shopify itself is also likely down as well, and you'll get more mileage out of the "sorry, GCP is down" justification (if it's even needed).
- marricks 6y agoYeah that’s a good point, it also shows up in weird ways. Like when Facebook auth went down a slew of unrelated apps did too because they relied on it. When I was younger I really wanted one thing to do everything, when chat was integrated into gmail is was like “oh boy, one less app!” And then similar feelings when it connected to SMS... now it’s just “great everything is getting more connected and homogenous and I seem to have less and less options”