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Re: GCP Outage

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That's the case with every status page. These pages are managed by business people not engineers, because their primary purpose is to show customers that the company is meeting contractually defied SLAs.

Surelly no SLA will be based on the display of the status page...

Maybe or maybe not, but someone with nothing better to do than monitor that page out of boredom might “get on the horn” with lots of people to complain if a green check mark turns to a red X.

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This feels very much like when facebook, locked themselves out of their datacenters. ;) * https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/facebook-blames-m...

Except that AWS, CloudFlare and a bunch others are also down :-O

Downdetector shows they've got issues as well, but it can be fairly unreliable, as people don't know which service is behind their apps.

I at least have no issues on their services across a few regions, and their console works fine.

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Interesting how I landed here. I was having trouble with Nest. Then I went to Down Detector. I noticed many sites having a simultaneous uptick. Then I came to HN, and found this link at the top of the front page.

Same here with npm

https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/dn5mcp85737y

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It's completely nuts that Firebase has this: https://status.firebase.google.com/incidents/ZcF1YDUvpdixZ2e... "Firebase Data Connect unavailable due to a known Google Cloud global outage" While the Google Cloud status page https://status.cloud.google.com/ says "No major incidents" and everything is green. So Google Cloud know there is an outage but just deem it not major enough to show it. Edit to add: within 10 minut…

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I'm actually on a bridge call with Google Cloud, we're a large customer -- I just learned today that their status page is not automated, instead someone actually manually updates it!

This is actually the norm for status pages. If you look at the various status page offerings you'll see that they're designed around manual updates.

The best way to consistently having good "time to response" metrics, is to be the one deciding when an incident "actually" started happening, if at all :)

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Getting a lot of errors for Claude Sonnet 4 (Cursor) and Gemini Pro. Nooooo I'm going to have to use my brain again and write 100% of my code like a caveman from December 2024.

Apple’s local models looking better each day :’)
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