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Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22

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Re: Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22

#11
That date format is actually the worst I have ever encountered. m-d-y, with year in 2 digits, numbers not zero-padded, US "order" yet using dashes. It's like a moderator of /r/ISO8601 came up with the worst possible format on purpose. Am I missing something?

Re: Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22

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post #4

McRib is a hilarious name for a service

I certainly wouldn't trust it's availability. (The original McDonald's McRib sandwich is well known for only being sold a limited time.) So "Mcrouter" comes from Memcache-Router, then the obvious McDonalds jokes are made and someone cleverly suggests "Mcrib" for the next service. But I can't think what the backronym would be for it. Memcache Ring Buffer maybe. Or Broker.

memcache router interface broker

Re: Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22

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post #4

McRib is a hilarious name for a service

I certainly wouldn't trust it's availability. (The original McDonald's McRib sandwich is well known for only being sold a limited time.) So "Mcrouter" comes from Memcache-Router, then the obvious McDonalds jokes are made and someone cleverly suggests "Mcrib" for the next service. But I can't think what the backronym would be for it. Memcache Ring Buffer maybe. Or Broker.

Apparently it generates configurations for Mcrouter. Could be MemCache-Router Instance Borker.

Re: Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22

#15
> including the author — which certainly made my role as Incident Commander more challenging!

As if no other way to communicate exists?

I remember using Slack, feeling fed up with emails, until I realized that if I wanted to sync Slack messages offline and have a standard way to view these messages that I was SOL. I am so glad that I've returned to email and optimized my workflow to use email effectively and efficiently. The best part is no more vendor lock-in.

Re: Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22

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That date format is actually the worst I have ever encountered. m-d-y, with year in 2 digits, numbers not zero-padded, US "order" yet using dashes. It's like a moderator of /r/ISO8601 came up with the worst possible format on purpose . Am I missing something?

It's a quirky nod to the fact that all the digits were 2 on that day in this format.

Re: Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22

#19

That date format is actually the worst I have ever encountered. m-d-y, with year in 2 digits, numbers not zero-padded, US "order" yet using dashes. It's like a moderator of /r/ISO8601 came up with the worst possible format on purpose . Am I missing something?

This is what you sometimes see for best-before dates in Canada. Even better, because our dates are “supposed to” be like 22/2 but I don’t think anyone here does that, except Quebec perhaps. Sometimes you just have no clue
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