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Is it bias, or are outages genuinely becoming more common? If the latter, why?
by mbanerjeepalmer 10mo ago
Is it bias, or are outages genuinely becoming more common? If the latter, why?
- Multicomp 10mo agoThe twitter fail whale was a thing a decade ago now. I don't think outages are more common as such, but we pay more attention to them since we live in mobile phones nowadays. There has been a lot of contralization of web servers into 3rd party CDNs like Akamai and Cloudflare, probably more than is truly needed by smaller actors who instead just need to fix their crappy DB access patterns and rid themselves of all the tracking js, but that in and of itself doesnt mean more outages...just a larger blast radius when an outage does happen.
- trusche 10mo ago> contralization I suspect this is a typo, but it really should be a thing :)
- mrweasel 10mo agoWe're concentrating our traffic around few and few sites/service, outages are just more noticeable. Google and YouTube have an impressive uptime record. YouTube is working fine here, and I can't remember YouTube ever being down.