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My Whole Foods grocery pickup order was affected by this outage. They couldn’t check me in. Groceries were packed in the fridge but they told me to come back later. What a waste of time.
Are you just guessing it's related or is there a reason to be sure? Either way, does seem sjll6 to have no manual fallback 'check-in' (or policy-level ability to bypass the need for it) mechanism.
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it's important to inform customers about the resiliency of their systems and let them pick how far they are going to invest for it. then you get to eat popcorn when stuff explodes. * single server event. $ * multi server event. $$ * single az event. $$$ * multi az event. $$$$ * global provider event. $$$$$ * cross provider event. $$$$$$ * alien invasion. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
"Briefly describe the '$$$$$$$' through '$$$$$$$$$$$$$' situations. Can't leave money lying on the table." - memo from Enterprise Sales Dept.
Short of alien invasion level are strategic military resistance levels to global/regional wars with differing levels of weapons and devastation.
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Unnecessary reflux obtained during US-Australian collaboration from insufficiently specific references to "east coast time".
Even in Australia, AEST has a DST flavour and a non-DST one. Queensland does not observe DST while the other states do. You can drive around a roundabout at the border and switch timezones for fun. Or go down there to celebrate the new year twice. Or go from rabbits being OK to some 5 figure fine if you're caught with one :)
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Also report it using IATA time zones (America/Los_Angeles) at least in addition (I'd argue instead of) those abbreviations which are completely unstandardized and not unique.
If the world were fair, we’d be calling these Eggert time zones, as Paul Eggert (longtime tzdata maintainer until the copyright trolls came) invented them; but it isn’t. (You probably still meant IANA the Internet org not IATA the aviation one.)
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3 years ago, when I started work for my current employer, I noticed in Slack that everyone was reckoning time in "Standard Time" year-round. Now imagine my chagrin because I live in Arizona, and "Mountain Standard Time" does not change for DST. Therefore, all my coworkers were citing nonsensical, nonexistent time zones and it was messing up my ability to convert back and forth. Come to find out that this was some sor…
This is why I always write ET instead of EDT/EST. I encourage everyone at my company to do the same. Easy way to eliminate errors while typing 1 less key stroke!
I "love" it when my vacuum stops working because an online book sellers servers went down. #modernlife This is a good reminder to avoid cloud-centric products, but they are getting harder and harder to avoid.
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It's also usually extremely US-centric. Nobody outside of North America has any idea what "PDT" or "Mountain Time" means.
3 years ago, when I started work for my current employer, I noticed in Slack that everyone was reckoning time in "Standard Time" year-round. Now imagine my chagrin because I live in Arizona, and "Mountain Standard Time" does not change for DST. Therefore, all my coworkers were citing nonsensical, nonexistent time zones and it was messing up my ability to convert back and forth. Come to find out that this was some sor…
I literally had cases when I was woken up in the middle of the night for production issue because some people are too sloppy about this kind of thing.