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The trend towards cloud architecture has meant consolidating a lot of products onto just a handful of cloud solutions. You trade a very bubbly flux of outages
by swatcoder 4y ago
The trend towards cloud architecture has meant consolidating a lot of products onto just a handful of cloud solutions.
You trade a very bubbly flux of outages across countless bespoke deployments, hosts, and topologies for something with failures that are more rare but also more widespread when they occur.
Personally, I think what you’re noticing is that outages and failures are much more high profile than they used to be because it’s bigger news when these big bubbles burst than it was in that noisier flux where small outages were occurring all the time.
- nijave 4y agoI think as dependence on web services increase there's also higher expectations about availability. You have giant services like Twitter, Facebook, and Google that are almost never down and start to expect that of other companies
- fezfight 4y agoGithub is Microsoft. I expect the same from them as I do Google.
- falcolas 4y agoSo, funny second hand story. Google’s accountants were using third party software hosted on GAE. They bitched to the third part about how the downtime of the software was unacceptable. The third party pointed out that each instance mentioned was a documented GAE outage. After some internal discussions, the accountants apologized. Google isn’t exactly a shining star.
- zxcvbn4038 4y agoWhenever GitHub disappoints me, I just remind myself how much better it is then Perforce.