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Now that everyone and their dog is on AWS, it is not just 'a website stops working', half the world, from telephones to security doors and Iot equipment, stops
by ClumsyPilot 5y ago
Now that everyone and their dog is on AWS, it is not just 'a website stops working', half the world, from telephones to security doors and Iot equipment, stops working?
I am not sure if the movement the cloud has reduced amount of failures, but it definitely has made these failures more catastrophic.
Our profession is busy makin the world less reliable and more fragile, we will have our reconning just like the shipping industry did.
- madeofpalk 5y agoall I've noticed is slack was a bit unreliable for a little bit, but i just carried on and otherwise ignored it. my world did not stop working.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoMy apartment block has a dialing system, that, instead if using a cale that goes to your apartment, relies on IP telephony and calls your mobile phone. It stos working if there is no internet, or your phone is out of battery, or you are not home but your wife is.
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- KronisLV 5y agoSame, maybe that was a related issue. Today, on Slack i could not edit messages, could not edit statuses and could not post attachments. Pretty annoying!
- dehrmann 5y agoIt's more like it's making downtimes correlated rather than random. For everything other than urgent communication, I'm not sure if this is a big deal.