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Which AZ?
Availability zones are unique for each account. So my zone A could be your zone C, for example.
Woah, thanks for clarifying--I had no idea!
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I haven't worked at Slack, so I can't speak with high confidence. A traffic spike is a possible reason, but I'm willing to bet that it's not the reason: > Doubt anyone releasing big changes Monday morning. This is definitely an engineering best practice, and by best practice, I mean something that Uber's, I mean Slack's SRE team strongly pushed for, and got politely overruled on. After a code freeze is lifted, it's q…
You just don't deploy something major the first day after a 2 weeks vacation, it does not makes any sense.
Why? I had a rewrite of some core logic the last day before Christmas that I didn'td deploy, as it wasn't time critical to get out and I didn't want to be disturbed during holidays. Today it was perfect to deploy, as I can watch it the whole week if needed.
Re: Slack is down
#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
I haven't worked at Slack, so I can't speak with high confidence. A traffic spike is a possible reason, but I'm willing to bet that it's not the reason: > Doubt anyone releasing big changes Monday morning. This is definitely an engineering best practice, and by best practice, I mean something that Uber's, I mean Slack's SRE team strongly pushed for, and got politely overruled on. After a code freeze is lifted, it's q…
In my experience it's not promotion-eager engineers that want to push after a code freeze, it's antsy product managers. YMMV tho.
What's there to change in Slack, though? It's arguably a messaging system, and that feature is tried and tested. That, and giphys, to be honest.
EDIT: Guys it was a joke, chill
Re: Slack is down
#194I'll concede that it's possible to not know what the problem is by now, but I won't concede that this should not be called an "outage" at this point.
Huh? It's definitely an outage.
It's a red "do not enter" esque thing now, but when the parent posted, I think it was still a yellow triangle.
But also, the status page still proudly proclaims that the "Uptime for the current quarter: 100%" — which is clearly false at this point.
Re: Slack is down
#195Funny how status.slack.com has reported Incidents and Outages for a while now, but still the "Uptime for the current quarter" is reported at 100% on the bottom right of the status table.
Re: Slack is down
#196It’s pretty embarrassing for their 45 minute update to be “not sure what’s wrong!”
The status still says "We're continuing to investigate", but they tweeted[0] that they have found the issue.
[0] - https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/1346132040249470979
Re: Slack is down
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You just don't deploy something major the first day after a 2 weeks vacation, it does not makes any sense.
Why? I had a rewrite of some core logic the last day before Christmas that I didn'td deploy, as it wasn't time critical to get out and I didn't want to be disturbed during holidays. Today it was perfect to deploy, as I can watch it the whole week if needed.
lol Good Luck!!
Re: Slack is down
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My feeling is this is an AWS issue. Our services hosted in AWS are not working either.
Downdetector indicates a possible correlation between Slack issues and AWS reports, eventhough Slack peaks at 13960 problems and AWS at 111: - https://downdetector.com/status/slack/ - https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
Most people that are affected by AWS outages wouldn't report it as such...
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>Why is migration so hard? Why would anyone make it easy
I think there should be a new computer science law (if this one doesn't exist already): Things that are easy to migrate from get replaced by things that are hard to migrate from, eventually. IRC is incredibly easy to migrate from.
We can call it the "Law Of Lotus Notes". I'm not sure if it's hard to migrate from, I can only assume that it is impossible to migrate from.
Re: Slack is down
#200Any opinions on using Discord vs. Slack?