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Let's hope they didn't push faulty DNS records :D But seriously, what's going on with all the service disruptions? From slack to all of facebook to GitHub (who

Let's hope they didn't push faulty DNS records :D But seriously, what's going on with all the service disruptions? From slack to all of facebook to GitHub (who had 7 incidents in September). Maybe centralizing the whole internet into a few providers isn't a good idea after all?

simzor 5y ago
Haha. To be fair GitHub has had a lot of issues that last few months though.
- rvz 5y ago
  You're not wrong about this... [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28130251 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28130251 Just don't go 'all in' on one service without backups or some second plan.
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stuff4ben 5y ago
Running services at scale is hard! And having everything in the cloud does put all of your eggs in a single basket. Also having all on-prem, home-built stuff is the same problem (eg. Facebook). Hybrid cloud solutions should help somewhat with impact when a service provider goes down, hopefully you can shunt your services locally and isolate yourself from the problem. But I doubt anyone is really doing that at scale either.
dijit 5y ago
> Maybe centralizing the whole internet into a few providers isn't a good idea after all? Everything's tradeoffs, economies of scale for centralising- easy to blame the provider if a fuckup happens. But when it goes down it stops everything; same issue with AWS, Azure's ADFS, Cloudflare, ad infinitum. Half the internet can go away at a moments notice or the provider can turn on you personally because an automated bot dislikes your username and decides to blacklist your company. (is my bias showing?) Anyway, Late September/Early October is rife with outages for as long as we've been running internet services. People speculate that it's the influx of new sysadmins/programmers, but that's debated.
- moretta 5y ago
  > Anyway, Late September/Early October is rife with outages for as long as we've been running internet services. Is there any particular source for that or is it just something that you've noticed? Feel like I do see more around this time of year but would be real interested if there is data backing it up.

simzor 5y ago

Haha. To be fair GitHub has had a lot of issues that last few months though.

rvz 5y ago
You're not wrong about this... [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28130251 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28130251 Just don't go 'all in' on one service without backups or some second plan.

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stuff4ben 5y ago

Running services at scale is hard! And having everything in the cloud does put all of your eggs in a single basket. Also having all on-prem, home-built stuff is the same problem (eg. Facebook). Hybrid cloud solutions should help somewhat with impact when a service provider goes down, hopefully you can shunt your services locally and isolate yourself from the problem. But I doubt anyone is really doing that at scale either.

dijit 5y ago

> Maybe centralizing the whole internet into a few providers isn't a good idea after all? Everything's tradeoffs, economies of scale for centralising- easy to blame the provider if a fuckup happens. But when it goes down it stops everything; same issue with AWS, Azure's ADFS, Cloudflare, ad infinitum. Half the internet can go away at a moments notice or the provider can turn on you personally because an automated bot dislikes your username and decides to blacklist your company. (is my bias showing?) Anyway, Late September/Early October is rife with outages for as long as we've been running internet services. People speculate that it's the influx of new sysadmins/programmers, but that's debated.

moretta 5y ago
> Anyway, Late September/Early October is rife with outages for as long as we've been running internet services. Is there any particular source for that or is it just something that you've noticed? Feel like I do see more around this time of year but would be real interested if there is data backing it up.