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Days when multiple outages happen always remind me of this wonderful article: http://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
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Amazon is, but Apple and Facebook both operate their own data centers. Edit: I take that back, Apple uses several cloud providers, including AWS.
Apple does use S3 for storage. You didn't hear it from me.
You did hear that from me, or anyone else with a firewall running on OS X.
ITunes Connect and TestFlight in particular has been an absolute shambles for at least the last 3 months. Nobody there seems to give a shit or take responsibility (ranging from support up thru to the highest levels).
Total tangent but: I just had a hideously bad experience trying to get something done with my developer account. It's not the first time. The IRS is easier to deal with than the app store. If iOS is their vision of the future of personal computing, then the future of personal computing is a walled garden presided over by a bureaucracy about as functional as a badly run DMV office. There is absolutely no excuse for th…
Given the attention given to customer experience in other areas, one assumes Apple knows how to treat their customers.
One reasonable conclusion is that they don't see developers as customers.
"Sharecropper" is probably a much closer match to what they see.
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Red? Not bloody likely. We should be cheering Apple for even using yellow, most of the time when things are on fire we don't even get that. Instead we get "green, with the tiny blue 'i' in the corner". Status pages are a bad joke.
Yeah. Like it or not, the status page reflects on the brand identity and having a status page that reflects the real condition of the infrastructure is immensely harmful to sales. I've found that most status pages suppress information about important events more than they publish it. I wonder if there's an "engineer's feed" out there somewhere that looks like mumbo-jumbo to the layperson but could actually be useful…
All the numbers usually tell a story
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Red? Not bloody likely. We should be cheering Apple for even using yellow, most of the time when things are on fire we don't even get that. Instead we get "green, with the tiny blue 'i' in the corner". Status pages are a bad joke.
Yeah. Like it or not, the status page reflects on the brand identity and having a status page that reflects the real condition of the infrastructure is immensely harmful to sales. I've found that most status pages suppress information about important events more than they publish it. I wonder if there's an "engineer's feed" out there somewhere that looks like mumbo-jumbo to the layperson but could actually be useful…
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Are they all on EC2? Maybe EC2 is throwing a fit.
Amazon is, but Apple and Facebook both operate their own data centers. Edit: I take that back, Apple uses several cloud providers, including AWS.
Actually that's not saying much, because a single cabinet is around a metric ton.
So it was unintentionally accurate.
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Amazon is, but Apple and Facebook both operate their own data centers. Edit: I take that back, Apple uses several cloud providers, including AWS.
Apple does use S3 for storage. You didn't hear it from me.