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We are barbarians occupying a city built by an advanced civilization, marveling at the hot baths but know nothing about how their builders keep them running. One day, the baths will drain and anyone who remembers how to fill them up will have died.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
See also Foundation by Asimov.
We are barbarians occupying a city built by an advanced civilization, marveling at the hot baths but know nothing about how their builders keep them running. One day, the baths will drain and anyone who remembers how to fill them up will have died.
This has been true for a long time and it is not a bad thing. It’s an easy target to romanticize but realistically, any alternative is basically a way of saying: “let’s stop evolving.”
Wanting to evolve differently doesn't mean halting.
It's a call not to devolve.
Must be a Y in the day. It amazes me how many projects exist that don't even have multi-region capability, let alone no single point of failure
HOST THE GODDAMN STATUS PAGE ON AZURE FOR FUCKS SAKE. There is zero excuse for this shit. Be professional. Acknowledge reality. It is logically impossible to run your own status page. Trying to do so just wastes everyone else on the internet's time when you have an outage.
Vercel is down too. My sites run on Cloudflare and Vercel, and I can't even log in to those right now. I'm curious — what does Hacker News run on? It seems impervious to any kind of downtime...
Pobody's nerfect.
This outage is extremely frustrating to me. My company hosts all our apps in gov cloud. Gov Cloud West 1 is also down, but the AWS Gov Cloud status page indicates that everything is healthy and green. I thought AWS's incident response to the East outage last week was that they'd update the status page to better reflect reality. Gov Cloud Status Page: https://status.aws.amazon.com/govcloud
We are barbarians occupying a city built by an advanced civilization, marveling at the hot baths but know nothing about how their builders keep them running. One day, the baths will drain and anyone who remembers how to fill them up will have died.
Many years ago I stood at the window of my comfortable apartment, watching wind and cold rain rage outside. I thought about my cave men ancestors who during such a storm if they needed water would have to go out and get it, getting themselves soaked. If I wanted water, the tap in the kitchen would give it to me, in a nice controlled fashion. If I did feel like having water rain down upon me, my shower would do that,…
We are barbarians occupying a city built by an advanced civilization, marveling at the hot baths but know nothing about how their builders keep them running. One day, the baths will drain and anyone who remembers how to fill them up will have died.
This has been true for a long time and it is not a bad thing. It’s an easy target to romanticize but realistically, any alternative is basically a way of saying: “let’s stop evolving.”
Earlier quoted context omitted.
If they're monitoring AWS downtime they might want to rethink this.
How come? It's accurate.