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Re: Twitter was down

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Post by the_af »

lukey_q wrote: post #25

A lot of high-profile outages recently. Can't actually remember the last time Twitter went fully down. Have to confess I immediately assumed an issue with my own connection, even though every other site is working. Unrelated, but for some reason the phrase "I have no mouth and I must scream" just popped into my head

> Unrelated, but for some reason the phrase "I have no mouth and I must scream" just popped into my head

That phrase was coined by Harlan Ellison in his classic scifi short story to represent a situation of complete despair and powerlessness.

I don't think a lack of Twitter, Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook or Gmail -- however inconvenient -- would fill me with that kind of existential dread :)

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by SteveGregory »

rmoriz wrote: post #47
SteveGregory wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Google, Cloudflare, and Stripe outages all affected Shopify. So Shopify has had several meaningful outages over the past few weeks.

Isn‘t Shopify a Fastly customer? Do they still use Cloudflare?

I was also under that impression until the Cloudflare event happened. I do not actually know what their dependency was, but all shops were taken offline.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by tunesmith »

pwenzel wrote: post #60
lukey_q wrote: post #25

A lot of high-profile outages recently. Can't actually remember the last time Twitter went fully down. Have to confess I immediately assumed an issue with my own connection, even though every other site is working. Unrelated, but for some reason the phrase "I have no mouth and I must scream" just popped into my head

Mercury is in Retrograde through July 31.

I never notice problems when I don't know about that, so I wish I hadn't read that. :)

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by devnonymous »

anonymousjunior wrote: post #2

the internet is just falling apart these days

Quite honestly, I wonder how much of this can be traced back to the fact that there are way too many layers of abstractions between the browser requests coming in and a cpu actually executing something to serve the request.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by mikece »

I posted the question on Slack "How do you spread the word when Twitter goes down?" People thought that was so hilarious... until they realized Twitter was actually down.

Honestly, "Hacker News" was my answer which seems to be effectively correct -- and today I learned about the existence of twitterstat.us!

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by whatshisface »

I remember once we were at three outages, someone posted that they thought three was a reasonably-sized random cluster given the rate at which services go down. How many outages have we had in the last 30 days, how many do we have per month on average, and how strongly can we reject the null hypothesis?

The formula for computing how unlikely this is is the Poisson distribution: `λ^k * e^-λ / k!`, where λ is the average number of outages every 30 days and k is the number of outages in the past 30 days. If you find the numbers, let me know what the answer is.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by lopespm »

A comment made before by another user about Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outages offers an interesting perspective:

"This outage coincides with FBs PSC (performance summary cycle) time. I wonder if this is folks trying to push features so they get “impact” for PSC."[1]

I wonder if the recent outages on other well known services could be heavily influenced by a similar phenomenon. If this holds water, it would be interesting to have an article or study around this issue. I certainly would be interested in reading it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20350579

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