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Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by reaperducer » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 9:21 PM UTC

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #505

ape4 wrote: post #62

2026: the year of your own metal in a rack

2027: the year of migrating from your own metal to a managed provider 2028: the year of migrating from a managed provider to the cloud 2029: the year of migrating from the cloud to your own metal in a rack People keep thinking the solution to their problems is to do something new (that they don't fully understand). TIL it's called Nirvana Fallacy

TIL it's called Nirvana Fallacy

We used to call it "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence."

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by iAMkenough » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 9:22 PM UTC

conductr wrote: post #528

jfengel wrote: post #509

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the US, hours-long lines are routine. Not everywhere, but poorer places tend to have fewer voting machines and longer lines. We've been closing a lot of polling places recently: https://abcnews.go.com/US/protecting-vote-1-5-election-day-p...

We have early voting, nobody has to wait, they choose to wait

We're on year five of one of the two parties telling voters to not trust early voting. Their choice is because of the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt created by the propaganda they are fed.

Here's the President of the United States on Sunday: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1154418712892...

"No mail-in or 'Early' Voting, Yes to Voter ID! Watch how totally dishonest the California Prop Vote is! Millions of Ballots being 'shipped.' GET SMART REPUBLICANS, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!!"

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by Havoc » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 9:24 PM UTC

Uehreka wrote: post #87

I noticed that Starbucks mobile ordering was down and thought “welp, I guess I’ll order a bagel and coffee on Grubhub”, then GrubHub was down. My next stop was HN to find the common denominator, and y’all did not disappoint.

The sysadmin subreddit tends to beat hn on outage reports by an hour+ in my experience.

Bunch of on-call peeps over there that definitely know the instant something major goes down

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by hshdhdhehd » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 9:26 PM UTC

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #505

ape4 wrote: post #62

2026: the year of your own metal in a rack

2027: the year of migrating from your own metal to a managed provider 2028: the year of migrating from a managed provider to the cloud 2029: the year of migrating from the cloud to your own metal in a rack People keep thinking the solution to their problems is to do something new (that they don't fully understand). TIL it's called Nirvana Fallacy

The upside of keep moving it acts as a hardener and chaos monkey. You shake out any crufty service no one knows how to build let alone deploy.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by Havoc » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 9:26 PM UTC

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #399

Google cloud run or cloudflare workers it is. Personally I am thinking more and more about hetzner, yes I know its not an apples to orange comparison. But its honestly so good Someone had created a video where they showed the underlying hardware etc., I am wondering if there is something like https://vpspricetracker.com/ but with geek-benchmarks as well. This video was affiliated with scalahosting but still I don't t…

Hetzner seems sound, but I doubt they play in the same reliability league as google

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by hshdhdhehd » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 9:28 PM UTC

Aperocky wrote: post #458

ape4 wrote: post #62

2026: the year of your own metal in a rack

I'd predict the year of linux desktop instead.

At least YOLD is possible. Is there capacity in the world for everyone to ditch clouds.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by btmiller » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 9:31 PM UTC

gmassman wrote: post #251

I’ve been migrating our services off of Azure slowly for the past couple of years. The last internet facing things remaining are a static assets bucket and an analytics VM running Matomo. Working with Front Door has been an abysmal experience, and today was the push I needed to finally migrate our assets to Cloudflare. I feel pretty justified in my previous decisions to move away from Azure. Using it feels like build…

Never let a good disaster go to waste ;)

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by wbsun » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 9:32 PM UTC

flumpcakes wrote: post #98

Pretty much all Azure services seem to be down. Their status page says it's only the portal since 16:00. It would be nice if these mega-companies could update their status page when they take down a large fraction of the Internet and thousands of services that use them.

Does their status page depend on something that is down already, so the page just fails static now hence no new updates?

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by Hamuko » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 9:32 PM UTC

Archelaos wrote: post #522

hinkley wrote: post #490

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Voting days should be a national holiday.

In Germany it is always a Sunday.

Same in Finland. And even if you work Sundays, there's a week's worth of early voting so you can take your pick.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by xnorswap » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 9:33 PM UTC

ed_elliott_asc wrote: post #523

DontBreakAlex wrote: post #480

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In europe, voting typically happens in one day, where everyone physically goes to their designated voting place and puts papers in a transparent box. You can stay there and wait for the count at the end of the day if you want to. Tom Scott has a very good video about why we don't want electronic/mail voting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

UK is a one day affair with voting booths typically open like 6 am to 10 pm

With the option to do a postal vote, or vote-by-proxy.