5 ms·

9s don’t have to drop if you increase the time period! “We still guarantee the same 9s just over 3450 years now”.

• echelon 1y ago
  Common SLA windows are hour, day, week, month, quarter, and year. They're out of SLA for all of those now. When your SLA holds within a joke SLA window, you know you goofed. "Five nines, but you didn't say which nines. 89.9999...", etc.
  • SlightlyLeftPad 1y ago
    These are typically calculated system-wide, so if you include all regions, technically only a fraction of customers are impacted.
    • alkhimey 1y ago
      Customers in all regions were affected…
      • prmoustache 1y ago
        Indirectly yes but not directly. Our only impact was some atlassian tools.
  • hamburglar 1y ago
    I prefer shooting for eight eights.
    • decimalenough 1y ago
      You mean nine fives.
  • captainkrtek 1y ago
    I shoot for 9 fives of availability.
    • president_zippy 1y ago
      I see what you did there, mister :P
    • dare944 1y ago
      5555.55555% Really stupendous availableness!!!
• rvba 1y ago
  In a company where I worked, the tool measuring downtime was at the same server, so even if the server was down they still showed 100% up. If the server didnt work - the tool too measure didnt work too! Genius
  • bityard 1y ago
    This happened to AWS too. February 28, 2017. S3 went down and took down a good portion of AWS and the Internet in general. For almost the entire time that it was down, the AWS status page showed green because the up/down metrics were hosted on... you guessed it... S3. https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/ https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/
    • subpar 1y ago
      obligatory https://x.com/lintzston/status/791761626890469377 https://x.com/lintzston/status/791761626890469377
      • belter 1y ago
        Published in the same week of October ...9 years ago ...Spooky...
    • CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
      Happened a couple of times :) - 2008 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=116445 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=116445 - 2010 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1396191 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1396191 - 2015 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10033172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10033172 - 2017 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13755673 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13755673 (Postmortem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13775667 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13775667) - 2024 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41770111 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41770111
      • hinkley 1y ago
        Five times is no longer a couple. You can use stronger words there.