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From the great Corey Quinn Ah yes, the great AWS us-east-1 outage. Half the internet’s on fire, engineers haven’t slept in 18 hours, and every self-styled “re
by raw_anon_1111 1y ago
From the great Corey Quinn
Ah yes, the great AWS us-east-1 outage.
Half the internet’s on fire, engineers haven’t slept in 18 hours, and every self-styled “resilience thought leader” is already posting:
“This is why you need multi-cloud, powered by our patented observability synergy platform™.”
Shut up, Greg.
Your SaaS product doesn’t fix DNS, you're simply adding another dashboard to watch the world burn in higher definition.
If your first reaction to a widespread outage is “time to drive engagement,” you're working in tragedy tourism. Bet your kids are super proud.
Meanwhile, the real heroes are the SREs duct-taping Route 53 with pure caffeine and spite.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/coquinn_aws-useast1-cloudcomputing-activity-7386091910320308224-73kb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAokImIBCa4JR7mlUp5o3BseZArP8KlN550 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/coquinn_aws-useast1-cloudcomp...
- Rooster61 1y agoThis wins all the internets today. Probably not a day where internets are particularly valuable, but it wins them nonetheless.
- raw_anon_1111 1y agoHe once said about an open source project that I was the third highest contributor on at AWS “This may be the worst AWS naming of 2021.” It was one of the proudest moments in my career. Yes I know it’s sad…