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Jeez, AWS, Azure, Google, and now iCloud. I don’t generally align myself with conspiracies, but it is very interesting to me that all 4 of these tech giants had

Jeez, AWS, Azure, Google, and now iCloud. I don’t generally align myself with conspiracies, but it is very interesting to me that all 4 of these tech giants had severe issues recently

sheikheddy 6y ago
Can you point me to the AWS and Google issues? I know about the Azure Active Directory failures yesterday.
- dmoy 6y ago
  There was a brief outage a few days back: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/technology/google-service-outage.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/technology/google-service...
- andrewxdiamond 6y ago
  Google https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24590499 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24590499 AWS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24498678 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24498678
tedd4u 6y ago
Everybody in a rush trying to ship their stuff before the end of the quarter ... before holiday shopping season code freezes? ️
- rachelbythebay 6y ago
  Gotta hit those OKRs...
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- m463 6y ago
  I suspect that this is all a symptom of increased load since the world stayed home and went online. Remember years ago when apple first shipped the iphone on AT&T and many cellphone calls just couldn't connect? I think it happened for multiple reasons all along the food chain when so many demanding phones came online. It took a while to build things out so things were less fragile.
nahuel0x 6y ago
if you want to put your tin foil hat on, add the recent Huawei's R&D lab explosion.
fatbird 6y ago
Perhaps the NSA is acting like a digital immune system by provoking an immune response in our tech giants.
- bergstromm466 6y ago
  > an immune response Immune system response? In another analogy, Snowden showed us that the American gov + the NSA has literally monopolized their Corporate-DNA Crispr gene editing tool + corrupt laws spreading the disease of ‘Patents” and invention monopolizing ‘intellectual property’. It’s literally withholding the ability for people to take the steps they need to learn. Contrived scarcity [1]. I don’t understand how anyone can see this monopolizing system where Silicon Valley is the place of inherited privilege as anything besides the hypocritical shitshow that it is. [1] "They assert a belief in ‘free markets’ and want us to believe that economic policies are extending them. That is untrue. Today we have the most unfree market system ever created [...] How can politicians look into TV cameras and say we have a free market system when patents guarantee monopoly incomes for twenty years, preventing anyone from competing? How can they claim there are free markets when copyright rules give a guaranteed income for seventy years after a person’s death? How can they claim free markets exist when one person or company is given a subsidy and not others, or when they sell off the commons that belong to all of us, at a discount, to a favoured individual or company, or when Uber, TaskRabbit and their ilk act as unregulated labour brokers, profiting from the labour of others? Far from trying to stop these negations of free markets, governments are creating rules that allow and encourage them." https://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-08-03/book-day-corruption-capitalism-guy-standing/ https://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-08-03/book-day-corru...
cblconfederate 6y ago
it's as if centralizing everything on a system designed for decentralization for precisely this reason, was not a great idea
dijit 6y ago
Happens every year around this time. Teaching events. People who left university and are now starting to work autonomously make more mistakes, it’s only natural.
dangoljames 6y ago
All of these have particularly large datacenter footprints in places where fires are ravaging the countryside.

Jeez, AWS, Azure, Google, and now iCloud. I don’t generally align myself with conspiracies, but it is very interesting to me that all 4 of these tech giants had severe issues recently

sheikheddy 6y ago

Can you point me to the AWS and Google issues? I know about the Azure Active Directory failures yesterday.

dmoy 6y ago
There was a brief outage a few days back: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/technology/google-service-outage.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/technology/google-service...
andrewxdiamond 6y ago
Google https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24590499 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24590499 AWS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24498678 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24498678

tedd4u 6y ago

Everybody in a rush trying to ship their stuff before the end of the quarter ... before holiday shopping season code freezes? ️

rachelbythebay 6y ago
Gotta hit those OKRs...
- deleted 6y ago
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m463 6y ago
I suspect that this is all a symptom of increased load since the world stayed home and went online. Remember years ago when apple first shipped the iphone on AT&T and many cellphone calls just couldn't connect? I think it happened for multiple reasons all along the food chain when so many demanding phones came online. It took a while to build things out so things were less fragile.

nahuel0x 6y ago

if you want to put your tin foil hat on, add the recent Huawei's R&D lab explosion.

fatbird 6y ago

Perhaps the NSA is acting like a digital immune system by provoking an immune response in our tech giants.

bergstromm466 6y ago
> an immune response Immune system response? In another analogy, Snowden showed us that the American gov + the NSA has literally monopolized their Corporate-DNA Crispr gene editing tool + corrupt laws spreading the disease of ‘Patents” and invention monopolizing ‘intellectual property’. It’s literally withholding the ability for people to take the steps they need to learn. Contrived scarcity [1]. I don’t understand how anyone can see this monopolizing system where Silicon Valley is the place of inherited privilege as anything besides the hypocritical shitshow that it is. [1] "They assert a belief in ‘free markets’ and want us to believe that economic policies are extending them. That is untrue. Today we have the most unfree market system ever created [...] How can politicians look into TV cameras and say we have a free market system when patents guarantee monopoly incomes for twenty years, preventing anyone from competing? How can they claim there are free markets when copyright rules give a guaranteed income for seventy years after a person’s death? How can they claim free markets exist when one person or company is given a subsidy and not others, or when they sell off the commons that belong to all of us, at a discount, to a favoured individual or company, or when Uber, TaskRabbit and their ilk act as unregulated labour brokers, profiting from the labour of others? Far from trying to stop these negations of free markets, governments are creating rules that allow and encourage them." https://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-08-03/book-day-corruption-capitalism-guy-standing/ https://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-08-03/book-day-corru...

cblconfederate 6y ago

it's as if centralizing everything on a system designed for decentralization for precisely this reason, was not a great idea

dijit 6y ago

Happens every year around this time. Teaching events. People who left university and are now starting to work autonomously make more mistakes, it’s only natural.

dangoljames 6y ago

All of these have particularly large datacenter footprints in places where fires are ravaging the countryside.