Is AWS/Azure/GCE down? Remember: the cloud is someone's else computer. When it's broken, you cannot do anything
GNU.org relying on a cloud provider? Isn't that going against the GNU philosophy a bit?
Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
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Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
#62Is AWS/Azure/GCE down? Remember: the cloud is someone's else computer. When it's broken, you cannot do anything
So what? I would rather have Google/Amazon employees on the issue than some random DevOps dude.
Well I guess the whole essence of HN is now lost... no room for some "random" startup dude to do anything that can be trusted.
Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
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Well Trump obliterated any chance of a decent lira value for the next years with his tweets and sanctions.
Why would you think that Turkey would retaliate against Trump's tweets by taking down reddit and GNU.org? I don't think that the Turkish government has nearly enough technical knowledge to pull of something like that. That is the problem with Turkey right now, it seems to me that the government doesn't want to work with qualified people.
Honestly, I wouldn't dismiss the technical capabilities of the Turkish government.
Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
So what? I would rather have Google/Amazon employees on the issue than some random DevOps dude.
I wouldn’t. Hire the right person and you have immediate response instead of waiting or somebody else. A large reason we are not going cloud for our new infrastructure.
It's Sunday. Please wait for Monday office hours for your immediate response.
Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
So what? I would rather have Google/Amazon employees on the issue than some random DevOps dude.
In fairness one "random DevOps dude" might be equally capable and less expensive for your infrastructure. Generally speaking any software company can succeed without a cloud provider's infrastructure, it's just a matter of cost and developing that competency in-house. There are many site reliability engineers who specialize in high availability and downtime resolution on baremetal hardware. StackExchange notably has…
Site reliability is a new fancy name for the sucker who is on call.
They will change career after being forced to work on week ends and holidays a few times. Incidentally, today is a Sunday AND the most taken holiday of the year.
Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
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I wouldn’t. Hire the right person and you have immediate response instead of waiting or somebody else. A large reason we are not going cloud for our new infrastructure.
It's Sunday. Please wait for Monday office hours for your immediate response.
At work we have a 24/7 20min response time clause. If the phone for work emergency calls we are ready to help in 20 minutes at any time around the clock even on Sunday.
Why would you do anything else for your sysop/sysadmin?
Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
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Infrastructure (ops, software, hiring, social) matters. Hiring some dude won't give you that.
Hiring the right dude will. The trouble is, most of them are happily employed elsewhere.
The right dude if both on week end AND on holidays right now.
Please wait until Monday 20th to get a status on the issue. Thank you.
Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
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In fairness one "random DevOps dude" might be equally capable and less expensive for your infrastructure. Generally speaking any software company can succeed without a cloud provider's infrastructure, it's just a matter of cost and developing that competency in-house. There are many site reliability engineers who specialize in high availability and downtime resolution on baremetal hardware. StackExchange notably has…
Site reliability is a new fancy name for the sucker who is on call. They will change career after being forced to work on week ends and holidays a few times. Incidentally, today is a Sunday AND the most taken holiday of the year.
Not all site reliability engineers have a bad work life balance.
Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
So what? I would rather have Google/Amazon employees on the issue than some random DevOps dude.
Well I guess the whole essence of HN is now lost... no room for some "random" startup dude to do anything that can be trusted.
I think you can concede that if we're talking a five nines foot race, you're unlikely to beat out AWS etc.
Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Site reliability is a new fancy name for the sucker who is on call. They will change career after being forced to work on week ends and holidays a few times. Incidentally, today is a Sunday AND the most taken holiday of the year.
Not all site reliability engineers have a bad work life balance.
The ones at AWS and Google, maybe not.
The ones who are the single "random DevOps dude" at a small company trying to emulate AWS and Google, do have zero balance.