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It seems that all the sites that ask for distributed systems in their interview and has their website down wouldn't even pass their own interview. This is why
by colesantiago 1y ago
It seems that all the sites that ask for distributed systems in their interview and has their website down wouldn't even pass their own interview.
This is why distributed systems is an extremely important discipline.
- mangamadaiyan 1y agoMaybe actually making the interviews less of a hazing ritual would help. Hell, maybe making today's tech workplace more about getting work done instead of the series of ritualistic performances that the average tech workday has degenerated to might help too. Ergo, your conclusion doesn't follow from your initial statements, because interviews and workplaces are both far more broken than most people, even people in the tech industry, would think.
- colesantiago 1y agoWell it looks like if companies and startups did their job in hiring the proper distributed systems skills more rather than hazing for the wrong skills we wouldn't be in this outage mess. Many companies on Vercel don't think to have a strategy to be resilient to these outages. I rarely see Google, Ably and others serious about distributed systems being down.
- the_mitsuhiko 1y ago> Many companies on Vercel don't think to have a strategy to be resilient to these outages. But that's the job of Vercel and it looks like they did a pretty good job. They rerouted away from the broken region.
- rester324 1y agoThere was a huuuge GCP outage just a few months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44260810 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44260810
- dist-epoch 1y agodistributed systems != continuous uptime
- colesantiago 1y ago100% wrong. Serious engineering teams that care about distributed systems and multi region deployments don't think like this.