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Re: Twitter was down

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Post by UncleMeat »

pgrote wrote: post #124
dubcanada wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I would intercept these rewards and put them in my backpack for the bus ride home, in order to avoid creating perverse incentives for the operations team. But did anyone call me 'hero'?" Wait so you stole rewards for a team that was spending time (I assume extra or stressful) on something you didn't do or have any part in. And you want a cookie? I mean I get it, the company was probably not great in it's infancy. Bu…

I think OP is saying the rewards were confiscated so the team wouldn't begin breaking things on purpose to get a reward when they fixed it.

Yeah but does anybody believe that the engineers would deliberately break things so they could have to work in a stressful environment bringing things back up just to get some free beer?

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by idlewords »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #133
idlewords wrote: post #82

So storytime! I worked at Twitter as a contractor in 2008 (my job was to make internal hockey-stick graphs of usage to impress investors) during the Fail Whale era. The site would go down pretty much daily, and every time the ops team brought it back up, Twitter's VCs would send over a few bottles of really fancy imported Belgian beer (the kind with elaborate wire bottle caps that tell you it's expensive). I would in…

> It took a while to return, so he used the time to explain how, in an ordinary setup ... This one was visible from such a great distance, it's a wonder neither of you spotted it as it happened! I love your post — reminds me of BOFH :)

The guy had an amazing beard, with streaks of white in it! He looked like a great wizard to me. I remember even as we noticed people were frantic, saying to one another "oh man, another outage, thank goodness it's not us!"

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by [deleted] »

djtriptych wrote: post #141
rossdavidh wrote: post #100

Ok, this is too many high-profile, apparently unrelated outages in the last month to be completely a coincidence. Hypotheses: 1) software complexity is escalating over time, and logically will continue to until something makes it stop. It has now reached the point where even large companies cannot maintain high reliability. 2) internet volume is continually increasing over time, and periodically we hit a point where…

I've been suspecting 3) for a few months now, and I'm quite curious how our government would handle it if it _were_ the case. Only a few of these outages have had plausible post-mortems ever made public.

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Re: Twitter was down

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Post by elamje »

rossdavidh wrote: post #100

Ok, this is too many high-profile, apparently unrelated outages in the last month to be completely a coincidence. Hypotheses: 1) software complexity is escalating over time, and logically will continue to until something makes it stop. It has now reached the point where even large companies cannot maintain high reliability. 2) internet volume is continually increasing over time, and periodically we hit a point where…

The brain is the greatest pattern matcher in the world. While it is unlikely all of these companies would have major outages in a month, be wary that the subconscious is constantly generating narratives to explain statistical anomalies.

Interesting theories nonetheless:)

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by azernik »

0xFFFE wrote: post #85
kyledrake wrote: post #49

In a slightly better alternate universe it stays down.

I share your sentiment to a certain extent, but I believe Twitter is a necessary evil. There should be an alternative to main stream media for people.

It's not so much an alternative to mainstream media as an informal gathering place for workers in the mainstream media

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by [deleted] »

lukey_q wrote: post #25

A lot of high-profile outages recently. Can't actually remember the last time Twitter went fully down. Have to confess I immediately assumed an issue with my own connection, even though every other site is working. Unrelated, but for some reason the phrase "I have no mouth and I must scream" just popped into my head

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Re: Twitter was down

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Post by JorgeGT »

idlewords wrote: post #114
dubcanada wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I would intercept these rewards and put them in my backpack for the bus ride home, in order to avoid creating perverse incentives for the operations team. But did anyone call me 'hero'?" Wait so you stole rewards for a team that was spending time (I assume extra or stressful) on something you didn't do or have any part in. And you want a cookie? I mean I get it, the company was probably not great in it's infancy. Bu…

I don't want a cookie; I want more $24/bottle Belgian beer.

You should submit a request to the Pinboard CEO...

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by hi5eyes »

rococode wrote: post #113
lukey_q wrote: post #25

A lot of high-profile outages recently. Can't actually remember the last time Twitter went fully down. Have to confess I immediately assumed an issue with my own connection, even though every other site is working. Unrelated, but for some reason the phrase "I have no mouth and I must scream" just popped into my head

Twitter is especially weird for this since it's often a platform where people talk about downtimes. I don't see this downtime mentioned on Reddit and I don't know of other sites where it might be discussed, so if Hacker News happened to go down at the same time, where would I go to talk about it with online strangers and find out if it's just me? Nowhere, I guess, I'd just wait it out with no extra insights on what's…

it got brought up as quick as it did here

at least on r/twitter

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by oldgun »

I remember seeing something about Twitter bringing out a newer version, with more features and goodies. This could be related to that?

Rolling out new features is always stressful I guess.

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