Fastly Outage • Hacker News Board

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by speedgoose » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:17 AM UTC

threeseed wrote: post #113

schappim wrote: post #81

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Yeah, this is what makes me feel this is more an AWS thing

AWS is reporting no issues across the regions: https://status.aws.amazon.com

AWS is almost never reporting issues on this page.

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by meowface » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:17 AM UTC

superzamp wrote: post #61

algo_cheese wrote: post #19

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> We're currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services. Guys, you are offline with a 503 error, this is a little more than "potential impact to performance".

Lowkey status reports are the norm now :) "some users may experience degraded service" => site completely down for all locations

"We're investigating reports of intermittent connectivity issues" => transatlantic cables cut, WWIII imminent

Re: Fastly Outage

#163

Post by dijit » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:18 AM UTC

an0n4u wrote: post #147

maest wrote: post #125

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Amusingly, the Stackoverflow 503 page has a typo: Error 503 Service Unavailable Service Unavailable Guru *Mediation*: Details: cache-lon4236-LON 1623146049 854282175 Varnish cache server

I don't see the typo? definitely a fastly problem though.. Fastly error: unknown domain: numpy.org. Details: cache-pdk17841-PDK

Mediation vs Meditation I think.

I think Varnish uses mediation intentionally though, it was this way 7 years ago when I last used Varnish.

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by zkldi » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:18 AM UTC

maest wrote: post #125

lpmitchell wrote: post #9

This seems to be impacting a number of huge sites, including the UK government website[0]. [0] https://www.gov.uk/ https://m.media-amazon.com/ https://pages.github.com/ https://www.paypal.com/ https://stackoverflow.com/ https://nytimes.com/ Edit: Fastly's incident report status page: https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj

Amusingly, the Stackoverflow 503 page has a typo: Error 503 Service Unavailable Service Unavailable Guru *Mediation*: Details: cache-lon4236-LON 1623146049 854282175 Varnish cache server

Mediation is a real word though?

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by aero-glide2 » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:18 AM UTC

isitdownrightnow.com is down

Re: Fastly Outage

#166

Post by austinjp » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:18 AM UTC

Yeah so it's been mentioned in the comments already, but to everyone in Fastly right now: I feel for you. Something like this must be insanely stressful, and not just during the outage. There will be (should be) a massive post-mortem. People will be losing sleep over this for days, weeks, months.

:(

Edit: There seems to be a major empathy outage in this thread. Disgusted but not surprised, unfortunately.

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by Metacelsus » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:18 AM UTC

I first noticed that xkcd was down. Then I went to post about it on reddit . . . also down! Good thing HN is up.

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by lucasverra » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:18 AM UTC

lpmitchell wrote: post #9

This seems to be impacting a number of huge sites, including the UK government website[0]. [0] https://www.gov.uk/ https://m.media-amazon.com/ https://pages.github.com/ https://www.paypal.com/ https://stackoverflow.com/ https://nytimes.com/ Edit: Fastly's incident report status page: https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj

But https://news.ycombinator.com/ is UP! :) Prepare those HN servers for massive influx in 3...2..1..

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by ur-whale » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:18 AM UTC

Looks like an SRE team rolled out buggy software.

Re: Fastly Outage

#170

Post by sossles » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:18 AM UTC

an0n4u wrote: post #147

maest wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amusingly, the Stackoverflow 503 page has a typo: Error 503 Service Unavailable Service Unavailable Guru *Mediation*: Details: cache-lon4236-LON 1623146049 854282175 Varnish cache server

I don't see the typo? definitely a fastly problem though.. Fastly error: unknown domain: numpy.org. Details: cache-pdk17841-PDK

I assume "Guru Mediation" is supposed to be "Guru Meditation", a reference to the way AmigaOS used to describe system failures.