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The more the conspiracy grows the faster these otherwise minor stories shoot to the top of HN and add to the pattern. It fuels itself.
"Minor" seems inappropriate. Can you remember another time when so many high-profile websites/services have had outages in so short a time span?
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> 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 Never understood this mentality but have seen it at many companies. Rewarding someone or some team for heroically fixing something after a catastrophic failure. Talk about misaligned incentives! Reminds me of the Cobra Effect [1]. When you reward…
Seems like maybe you want to reward fire fighters and also reward fire prevention?
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…
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…
> 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, I don't understand. Why would anyone call you hero? Are you suggesting that the team would deliberately crash the app to receive beers and that by stealing them you stopped this from happening? Free drinks and free food is the…
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…
mastodon.social is also suddenly down.
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…
> 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, I don't understand. Why would anyone call you hero? Are you suggesting that the team would deliberately crash the app to receive beers and that by stealing them you stopped this from happening? Free drinks and free food is the…
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…
> 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, I don't understand. Why would anyone call you hero? Are you suggesting that the team would deliberately crash the app to receive beers and that by stealing them you stopped this from happening? Free drinks and free food is the…
That it is a joke.