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I use HackerNews to check if my internet is OK. I'm sure even with this incident it has better uptime than Github, Gitlab and quite a few other services from ma
by AlexeyBelov 3y ago
I use HackerNews to check if my internet is OK. I'm sure even with this incident it has better uptime than Github, Gitlab and quite a few other services from major cloud providers / companies.
- gunapologist99 3y agoHN is a modern scalable multi-AZ, multi-region, multi-cloud Kubernetes edge worker Docker serverless lambda IoT paradigm SPA web 2.0 blockchain AI architecture (OCI) and certainly doesn't get those kind of reliability numbers from being a carefully watched server under dang's desk. https://twitter.com/danieldibswe/status/1169485819993841664 https://twitter.com/danieldibswe/status/1169485819993841664 Kubernetes. We've come so far since the 90's.
- gunapologist99 3y agoPoe's law strikes again. HN, StackOverflow, Hey.com/Basecamp, Lichess and probably many others that I'm not remembering or aren't famous run mostly or exclusively on real iron. We don't need buzzword bingo to build reliable, internet-scalable systems, especially when a hiccup occurs so rarely that it's news when it does happen.
- ShamelessC 3y agoI keep seeing these comments, but in my experience hacker news has minor outages several times per year. That’s not counting massive slowdowns from big stories.
- BossingAround 3y ago`ping 1.1` is so much faster check these days...
- Titan2189 3y agoThanks, I never knew this resolves. I guess similar to IPv6 :: ?