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They've been this fragile for some considerable time. We've just been lucky, over and over again, that nothing of this seriousness has happened before.
by lambdaone 2y ago
They've been this fragile for some considerable time. We've just been lucky, over and over again, that nothing of this seriousness has happened before.
- mikeweiss 2y agoAgreed, but I do believe it has gotten more serious the last 15 years with the centralization of most data centers among the big three (AWS, Microsoft, Google) and the increasing reliance for end user devices and software to be able to connect to them in order to function. Now that a major worldwide outage has happened I'm curious what industry changes will take place going forward... If any...
- trod123 2y agoNo change will take place because there is no incentive towards change. One might say, well there was this huge outage, but in reality they will keep doing as they've done business as usual. They may spin up a new shell company, under a new name, and that will be far cheaper than devoting a budget to security in the first place. Rinse and repeat. There has long been little to no liability for software flaws, and proving negligence is an uphill battle. Just to clarify, System's Engineer's know how to build resilient systems that do not fail under most circumstances. It is only when corporate overlords decide to make the tradeoff of resiliency, for a little more penny pinching in the shares; that things like this happen. It is a natural flaw of any centralized hierarchical system involving people. Corruption, Front of Line Blocking, are all just another term for Single Points of Failure.
- up-n-atom 2y agoThey’ll just start to sell newly conjured insurance plans on top of their monthly cloud subscriptions