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AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several services
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Re: AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several services
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would highly recommend http://www.datomic.com as a database for multiple reasons, but one of them is that fact that it's totally portable between DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc. You can create a Datomic backup from any of these databases and restore them into a different one with the exact same semantics.
Isn't datomic closed source?
It is closed source, just like DynamoDB.
However - unlike DynamoDB - it has a quite usable free version and an even better starter version, which are good enough for production use. (The DDB local version is really only good for development) By production use, I mean for example a non-replicated MongoDB/PgSQL/MySQL, which is what I see from many smaller companies... They would be already really better of with Datomic.
If you really need more features, like high availability and transparent query caching with memcached, then the cheapest paid version has a one-time cost of $3000: http://www.datomic.com/pricing.html
You can easily save that amount of money by not spending 3-6 months developing tons of unnecessary queries, try to maintain that code and try to optimize its performance for scale...
On the "open-sourceness" note, I feel obliged to mention https://github.com/tonsky/datascript which IS open-source, and has a Datomic-like interface, but it's "just" an in-memory implementation.
But we are getting off-topic here I guess...
Re: AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several services
#103This seems like another reason to not rely on Amazon-specific services, other than the obvious vendor lock-in. At least in the event of an instance outage you could conceivably migrate off Amazon to another VPS provider. No one using DynamoDB has an alternative.
I don't disagree that you would want to have a rough idea of what migrating off of DynamoDB would require but wouldn't the easier step be using redundancy across regions first? Most of the sites which have suffered downtime due to AWS outages have been operating in only a single region (or even AZ!) and adding the extra level isolation is usually going to be a lot easier than dealing with multiple vendors or having t…
There are many high profile companies down (airbnb, IMDb, tinder, ...) so apparently this is not so straightforward.
Re: AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several services
#104This is manifesting itself as downtime for a lot of companies, including Heroku: https://status.heroku.com If you want alerts on this sort of thing, my side project StatusGator https://statusgator.io will alert you when services post downtime on their status pages. My dashboard blew up this morning with a ton of red and yellow as soon as Amazon started flaking. Edit: I suppose it's time to invest in a multi-region se…
From Heroku Status Page: > Our service provider is still working towards resolution of this issue. We will update when we have news, or in 1 hour. I wonder why they don't tell that AWS is their service provider. Is it wrong to make the information less obscure?
Because it is kind of awkward PR for Salesforce: come build on our platform! Oh by the way we haven't even moved Heroku, a company that we bought 4 years ago, over to it yet.
Re: AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several services
#105This is manifesting itself as downtime for a lot of companies, including Heroku: https://status.heroku.com If you want alerts on this sort of thing, my side project StatusGator https://statusgator.io will alert you when services post downtime on their status pages. My dashboard blew up this morning with a ton of red and yellow as soon as Amazon started flaking. Edit: I suppose it's time to invest in a multi-region se…
Interesting that the outage in us-east-1 is causing huge issues for Heroku in eu-west-1 too - obviously a region for Heroku isn't self sufficient.
Re: AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several services
#106Why is us-east-1 so terrible? All of the downtime this year has been Virginia.
It's the primary AWS region. You spin up your resources by default there unless you explicitly select another region in the console.
It's probably a good idea to pick other regions, especially the ones closest to yourself
However, us-east is usually the cheapest one as well
Re: AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several services
#107Re: AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several services
#108This is manifesting itself as downtime for a lot of companies, including Heroku: https://status.heroku.com If you want alerts on this sort of thing, my side project StatusGator https://statusgator.io will alert you when services post downtime on their status pages. My dashboard blew up this morning with a ton of red and yellow as soon as Amazon started flaking. Edit: I suppose it's time to invest in a multi-region se…
"Until this incident is resolved, you might be unable to open new support tickets with us."
Maybe they should host the ticket system on a separate provider?
Re: AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several services
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't disagree that you would want to have a rough idea of what migrating off of DynamoDB would require but wouldn't the easier step be using redundancy across regions first? Most of the sites which have suffered downtime due to AWS outages have been operating in only a single region (or even AZ!) and adding the extra level isolation is usually going to be a lot easier than dealing with multiple vendors or having t…
There are many high profile companies down (airbnb, IMDb, tinder, ...) so apparently this is not so straightforward.
I don't see airbnb or IMDB being down. If there's some advice on what small time apps (like mine) can do to get thing up again sooner, please let me know.
Re: AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several services
#110For ADHD I would recommend Concerta/Ritalin/Adderall; that would enable you to read for not just a few seconds more but even minutes more before you judge.
(I'm not joking here, I'm using 36mg Concerta for about about 4yrs now. Before that I also often came across as an asshole.)
There is also a less evasive way of improving your online communication quality: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html