ahh..another "configuration change" ?
Twitter was down
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#172Stuff like this makes me wonder if the Internet really is super vulnerable, and the only reason there isn't a mass disruption of communication all the time is because some script kiddies's Pizza Rolls were perfect today so he held off on attacking a backbone.
This is actually true of most of the modern world. It is mostly still together because the venn diagram of those who want to see the world burn, and those who are clever enough to make it so has a very very small intersection, since the latter group is quite invested in the world not being on fire.
Yes, I think people tend to underestimate the chaos some malicious actors could do by even "just" coordinated litteral burning of stuff. Think a dozen people with cans of gasoline and matches spread over three different suburbias in a city, wooden churches or other wooden buildings of interest. Or simple firebombs on underground subway plattforms. Would probably not be that lethal but I guess very frighting.
(Not even mentioning explosives etc, but this could probably be prepared in like an hour by just purchasing supplies at local gas stations in any country)
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#173Ok, this is too many high-profile, apparently unrelated outages in the last month to be completely a coincidence. Hypotheses: 1) software complexity is escalating over time, and logically will continue to until something makes it stop. It has now reached the point where even large companies cannot maintain high reliability. 2) internet volume is continually increasing over time, and periodically we hit a point where…
It's #1. The real question is how this isn't blindingly obvious to everyone.
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#174So storytime! I worked at Twitter as a contractor in 2008 (my job was to make internal hockey-stick graphs of usage to impress investors) during the Fail Whale era. The site would go down pretty much daily, and every time the ops team brought it back up, Twitter's VCs would send over a few bottles of really fancy imported Belgian beer (the kind with elaborate wire bottle caps that tell you it's expensive). I would in…
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#175So storytime! I worked at Twitter as a contractor in 2008 (my job was to make internal hockey-stick graphs of usage to impress investors) during the Fail Whale era. The site would go down pretty much daily, and every time the ops team brought it back up, Twitter's VCs would send over a few bottles of really fancy imported Belgian beer (the kind with elaborate wire bottle caps that tell you it's expensive). I would in…
Is that beer story satire?
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#176So storytime! I worked at Twitter as a contractor in 2008 (my job was to make internal hockey-stick graphs of usage to impress investors) during the Fail Whale era. The site would go down pretty much daily, and every time the ops team brought it back up, Twitter's VCs would send over a few bottles of really fancy imported Belgian beer (the kind with elaborate wire bottle caps that tell you it's expensive). I would in…
> We got so engrossed in the details of this topic that half an hour passed before we noticed that everyone had stopped working and was running around in a frenzy. Someone finally ran over and asked him if he was doing a query, he hit Control-C, and Twitter came back up.
This would not be out of place as a scene in Silicon Valley
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#177A 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
Yesterday, Stripe went down for a half hour, and the later yesterday, Google's Android Payment Validation API went down for more than 2 hours. Stripe at least acknowledged their downtime. Google was oblivious, made no update to any of their status pages. Really horrendous awareness and support from Google per usual.
Giving Amazon a run for their money I see.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I would intercept these rewards and put them in my backpack for the bus ride home, in order to avoid creating perverse incentives for the operations team. But did anyone call me 'hero'?" Wait so you stole rewards for a team that was spending time (I assume extra or stressful) on something you didn't do or have any part in. And you want a cookie? I mean I get it, the company was probably not great in it's infancy. Bu…
I don't want a cookie; I want more $24/bottle Belgian beer.
That's usually called stealing, or something a little softer than that. It's interesting that you shared that experience expected for us to laugh at it. The rest of the comment was hilarious and I'm happy you shared it, but that bit is very odd. I also see where you're coming from. But your act was ethically questionable.
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#180No! Now I have to work. :(