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Issue affecting the Gateway API on the Braintree platform
- preinheimer 3y agoHugops to the team working on it. The biggest incidents have the best post mortems.
- m00dy 3y agoDefi has never been down.
- vermilingua 3y agoIt’s also never been up
- tmpX7dMeXU 3y agoI could name plenty of other systems nobody wants and speak to their uptime, too? My Plex server probably has better uptime than GitHub lately but I’m not gonna start pushing my code there. It does its job serving the barbie movie, just like defi tells me who to unfollow.
- ta1243 3y agoThe whole point of git was its decentralisation. Then people just moved to a client/server model hanging off github. But you're right, local servers are more reliable than big cloud ones.
- hdctambien 3y agoI think you may have missed a bit of their point... a plex server is a video hosting server.. like a personal Netflix. They wouldn't push their code to their Plex server because it's not a server that accepts code pushes.
- ta1243 3y agoLast time I checked plex was just a linux box with some software. No reason why you can't push a git repository onto it
- Chilinot 3y agoPlex is a piece of software for playing media. It's not an operating system.
- ta1243 3y agowhich runs on a linux server
- dylan604 3y agosomebody needs a shovel to make the hole they are digging easier. this is sad to watch, but i'm enjoying the popcorn. there's an original point, and then your attempt and being clever which is so far off the mark that it clearly was meant in jest...had it be left alone. but you then attempted take it further like you are serious. which is just sad really.
- LadyCailin 3y agoNot on average. On average, with proper failover and redundancy, you can get five nines, which is 5 minutes of downtime per year. I have that much every time I reboot my machine.
- anaganisk 3y agoBut it is illegal depending on the country, Or a scam depending on the receiver, Or centralized if you use a hosted wallet, DeFIs merits on paper sound life changing, but reality is far from it. It's an unorganized, volatile mess.
- danheskett 3y agoNot a great message when billionaire tech-heads are getting scammed for seven-figures and are entirely defenseless. If Mark Cuban can't get the vendor/tech mix right, what chances do an average Joe have?
- smeej 3y agoThe average Joe has a whole different set of incentives than Mark Cuban. It's much easier to sort out the smaller set of incentives the average Joe has and align them.
- fullspectrumdev 3y agoAssuming because someone is successful and competent in one area means they must be competent in other, related areas has a habit of going poorly, and happens a lot in tech.
- q87b 3y agohttps://web3isgoinggreat.com/?tech=defi https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?tech=defi
- piva00 3y agoDefi doesn't have disputes nor chargebacks either, complete no-go for any mainstream checkout flow.
- lifefeed 3y ago"My toilet pipes are broken and I have to get a plumber." "Shitting in the woods is never broken."
- 11235813213455 3y agountil you step on it
- oooyay 3y agoWell yeah, in DeFi you also wouldn't have an anti-fraud gateway because then there'd be no transactions.
- LightRailTycoon 3y agoI've developed a DeFi anti-fraud gateway, first version runs on stdin: yes '"Fraudulent Transaction Detected"' I also have a json api: while true; do echo 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8 Server: anti-fraud gateway "Fraudulent Transaction Detected"'|nc -l 8123;done
- arrowsmith 3y agoAnd yet no-one apart from a tiny handful of techbros uses it. Almost as if uptime isn't the only thing that matters.
- jklinger410 3y agoThe value is down on 99% of the coins, though
- flangola7 3y agoDefi has no fraud protection
- xyst 3y agopeople in the comments are getting nasty. Sure the ecosystem is plagued with scammers, but financial system in general is filled with scammers. We just have insurance products or the faith of the US government to bail you out lol I still believe in digital currency as the future.
- inductive_magic 3y agoThe -highly entertaining- comments are rightfully bashing the de facto state of defi in the context of GPs comment. Remind me when a digital currency actually exists, because I haven't seen one yet. The problem isn't just that the ecosystem is filled with scammers, its that the tech doesn't solve any existing problem but creates new ones instead. Web3 is a joke.
- shaftoe 3y ago"Some merchants may be seeing a higher-than-usual decline due to Gateway rejections Fraud." Is this really "down"?
- piva00 3y agoFor merchants it is, I worked on a marketplace before and having checkout flows with higher than usual declines will eat on your sales. People don't tolerate it so well and will either drop the purchase completely if it's a "want" and not a "need", or will go to the competition to finish the purchase.
- siddharthgoel88 3y agoFor us the rejection rate is 90+% which is equivalent to down for me.
- bastawhiz 3y agoIf a site is being DDoSed and only 10% of legitimate traffic is going through, is it "up"? I think you'd be hard pressed to call that "not down". So if the proximate cause is fraud instead of network requests, how is it any different?
- ricardobayes 3y agoIf you're trying to order lunch or pay for your medicine online, then yeah I'd say it's pretty much down.
- Aurornis 3y agoThe trend is is to downplay the issue in status messages to obscure the real problem. That message could mean anything from an extra 1% of rejections to 99% of transactions are failing. The vagueness is the point, because they want to avoid admitting serious problems. We had this problem with some devops hires who came from a big company. They’d delay updating the status page as long as possible, then update with the weakest language that was technically correct. “Some customers might experience degraded performance” was their go-to message for nearly complete outages. They’d argue that it was technically correct because some requests were getting through in some logs somewhere. It was a side effect of working in an environment where their bonuses depended on downtime and the severity of outages. The game was to admit as little as possible to keep those bonus numbers high. We didn’t calculate bonuses that way but they had ingrained the behavior from years of BigCo performance reviews.
- mauvehaus 3y agoMeanwhile, anyone in Boston who only read the headline is completely unsurprised to hear that the red line isn't running and is wondering how this merits making the front page of HN.
- rd 3y agoHahaha this is what my brain went to immediately as well
- nerdjon 3y agoI haven't had enough coffee yet, I saw the headline and couldn't figure out why something didn't make sense reading it and I live in Boston. Glad to see this comment to explain it.
- fasteo 3y agoSome context[1] for the non-Bostonians Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority RED LINE Ashmont/Braintree 4 current alerts So it seems this line is pretty unreliable. [1] https://www.mbta.com/schedules/Red/line https://www.mbta.com/schedules/Red/line
- Tempest1981 3y ago15 miles south of Boston: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braintree,_Massachusetts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braintree,_Massachusetts
- dublinben 3y agoThat's quite an understatement. It's currently taking 68 minutes longer than it shouuld to get from Braintree to the other end.[0] https://dashboard.transitmatters.org/system/slowzones/?chartView=xrange&selectedLines=Red&startDate=2022-09-21&endDate=2023-09-21 https://dashboard.transitmatters.org/system/slowzones/?chart...
- NetOpWibby 3y agoHaven't lived in Boston since early 2018 and I've only heard worse and worse things. Good grief.
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- smeej 3y agoNot sure, but anecdotally I haven't received any such notices even though I do have active connections.
- xyst 3y agoExtended downtime like this usually means prod database deleted. Sucks to be that SRE team. Can’t wait for the Kevin Fang re-enactment!
- sp332 3y agoLast time Stripe had extended downtime, it was DNS. I think that's more likely than a missing database.
- consoomer 3y agoOr that one microservice holding up the other 10,000 microservices keeled over :)
- ranting-moth 3y agoBut microservices are standalone services. Anyone who correctly implements ms wouldn't make it depend on other ms or get it shipped to prod anyway. Edit: /s
- btilly 3y agoI'm trying to figure out the odds that you intended this as sarcasm. In the real world, it doesn't work like that.
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- xbenjii 3y agoWe had to disable the fraud protection on our account to be able to accept transactions temporarily, luckily we have alternative fraud protection in play too.
- sparrish 3y agoOur account didn't see any interruption. Subscriptions processed fine and new subscriptions were processed as well.