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Many large sites which aren't properly architecting their infrastructure to deal with the commodity nature of the cloud.
by res0nat0r 14y ago
Many large sites which aren't properly architecting their infrastructure to deal with the commodity nature of the cloud.
- mey 14y agohttp://downrightnow.com/netflix http://downrightnow.com/netflix If netflix is down, then it's something most companies who know how to design fail over can't cope with.
- res0nat0r 14y agoThe last Netflix post mortem mentioned they had a bug in their configuration where they kept sending traffic to already down ELB instances, which was the cause of the last outage for them if I remember correctly.
- incision 14y agoNot necessarily, it could be some element of the Netflix architecture that due to their size and/or design trade-offs has taken longer / is harder to eliminate than it would be for others. Other services, like Twilio, have come through several of these major problems with US-EAST generally unscathed while Netflix has had issues repeatedly.
- iamdave 14y agoNetflix seems to be operating just fine for me in the southwest USA.
- acdha 14y agoAccording to a site which doesn't document what its reports are based on. Given that Netflix worked for me during that period, I'm suspicious that downrightnow might be using EBS somewhere.
- dsl 14y agoI'm seeing issues across multiple AZ's. Everything is still up, but that doesn't stop me from getting paged.
- darkarmani 14y agoIncluding companies like Amazon that aren't properly architecting their control plane.
- jeremyjh 14y agoThey should outsource it.