> Not sure why this is being posted now. This kind of thing often happens when an interesting link is mentioned as a comment to some recent event. I linked to

> Not sure why this is being posted now. This kind of thing often happens when an interesting link is mentioned as a comment to some recent event. I linked to it somewhat recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23790516 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23790516), but that was over two weeks ago, so it probably wasn't my comment which led to this being posted now. > However, it seems out-of-touch today, because of years of work in building more reliable systems out of distributed components has made the internet and scalable internet services possible. And yet, it still happens. That comment I posted was about a computer most people didn't even know existed, making their own phones (which can be considered computers nowadays) unusable. A more recent event would be the Garmin servers going down, making many devices unusable.