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Travel websites are down? Airbnb.com, Expedia.com

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Re: Travel websites are down? Airbnb.com, Expedia.com

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Post by s_dev »

blondie9x wrote: post #10
penagwin wrote: post #6

AWS and/or Akamai are having service issues - naturally both of their status pages are green.

Why the heck are status pages so useless here?

Because status pages are now pages that express politics regarding SLAs for executives and lawyers rather than useful technical tools for developers and sys-admins.

Re: Travel websites are down? Airbnb.com, Expedia.com

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Post by xnyan »

blondie9x wrote: post #10
penagwin wrote: post #6

AWS and/or Akamai are having service issues - naturally both of their status pages are green.

Why the heck are status pages so useless here?

I've seen this behavior at every place I've worked. You get in trouble when the status page goes red, therefore never say that anything is down unless you absolutely have to do so.

Re: Travel websites are down? Airbnb.com, Expedia.com

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Post by robrtsql »

blondie9x wrote: post #10
penagwin wrote: post #6

AWS and/or Akamai are having service issues - naturally both of their status pages are green.

Why the heck are status pages so useless here?

One pessimistic argument would be that AWS has no incentive to be honest or timely about acknowledging service outages.

Re: Travel websites are down? Airbnb.com, Expedia.com

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Post by losvedir »

Ha, how do you end up reaching for "travel websites"? Like, what is the shared technology that they use that general internet sites don't? I clicked into the comments hoping to learn something interesting about the travel industry (like maybe Airbnb and Expedia and others are all part of some conglomerate - like how many of the dating websites are actually one company).

But, yeah, general infrastructure being down and affecting all kinds of disparate (travel and non-travel) sites makes sense and is boring.

Reminds me of an interesting study where researchers gave a list of numbers with some hidden property and let people ask if other numbers have that property, to try to figure out what it was. And people tend to generate numbers that agree with their hypothesis, to try to confirm it, rather than numbers that disagree, to disprove it. Wish I could find that study.

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