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Middle of the night? It was at noon for most of Europe
by Goz3rr 5y ago
Middle of the night? It was at noon for most of Europe
- unityByFreedom 5y agoWhat are Europe's whales?
- vbsteven 5y agoLots of tech companies have engineering offices with SRE responsabilities in Europe timezones. Could be anyone really.
- unityByFreedom 5y agoMy guess is this level of change would come from senior devs in the main office.
- maccard 5y agoAre you implying that no senior devs or main offices are located in europe? Also, just because the rollout to fastly happened at a morning EU time, doesn't mean that the change was made. If there's a deployment pipeline, it could have been made 2-3 hours earlier, or even the day before
- unityByFreedom 5y agoI'm saying a big network change is probably going to be executed while HQ is awake and in the loop. In my experience the most skillful devs aren't the most senior.
- vbsteven 5y agoWe don't know much about the specific client configuration change that triggered this condition yet. It doesn't necessarily have to be a big company wide infrastructure change. To me it sounds plausible that an SRE team in an alternate location made a change scoped to their permission level, following company-directed playbooks, which eventually triggered the faulty condition at Fastly.
- unityByFreedom 5y agoSeems likely to me this was a change pushed from outside the US given the timing.
- yupper32 5y agoMany big tech companies (and individual products within the company) rotate oncall/release/SRE responsibilities between NA and EU. HQ doesn't need to be awake in these cases.
- davman 5y agogov.uk ?
- iainmerrick 5y agoSpotify is the first that comes to mind, if you’re looking for a big tech company headquartered in Europe.