Fastly Outage • Hacker News Board

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by abunuwas » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:40 AM UTC

antihero wrote: post #251

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

I wonder why amazon.co.uk uses Fastly and not CloudFront?

That doesn't appear to be the case does it? Amazon sites are all working fine, at least for me

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by jb1991 » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:40 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

For what its worth, I'm having these problems also with cnn.com, reddit and many others, however when I switch away from WiFi to use my cell provider network, they work fine.

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by tus89 » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:40 AM UTC

jslakro wrote: post #284

tus89 wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paypal back, off fastly

Why no other sites bypass the CDN and go directly?

You need big infra and Crack teams of ops people, which paypal can't afford not to have.

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by stefan_ » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:40 AM UTC

timvisee wrote: post #175

This seems to be a bigger issue. BGP failure?

If they can serve me a garbage Varnish error (shoutout to "software that actually runs your business that none of your devs work on") it's not BGP.

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by strictfp » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:40 AM UTC

austinjp wrote: post #166

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.

Meh. Losing sleep sounds like an over-reaction. No system is foolproof. Of course Fastly should do what they can to prevent downtime, but it's still expected that they will go down.

I would blame anyone who claimed otherwise or couldn't deal with it while not having a fallback.

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by taurath » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:40 AM UTC

iso1631 wrote: post #198

fagnerbrack wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The internet still works, only the websites are returning the wrong response

Thank god network people haven't drunk the centralization kool-aid.

It’s the equivalent to JIT manufacturing. Cheaper when everything is going fine, and devastating when it’s not. And then when everything goes down at once there’s not enough advantage to being the only one still up.

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by ZoomStop » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:40 AM UTC

The outage has already been added to the Fastly Wikipedia page

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by ceejayoz » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:40 AM UTC

jfny wrote: post #298

ceejayoz wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm particularly intrigued as to why Amazon.com uses them. They literally have their own directly competing CDN product. You'd think they'd be dogfooding it.

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S3 is fine.

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by ddtaylor » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:40 AM UTC

Someone must have 51% attack the Pied Piper blockchain!

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by lordpankake » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 10:41 AM UTC

threeseed wrote: post #68

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

I wonder why Amazon is not using Cloudfront for their own website.

Cloudfront, by Amazon's own admission, specialises in high bandwidth delivery (ie huge videos). Fastly has consistently better performance as a small object cache, which makes it the choice for web assets

https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2020/05/fastly-amazon-hom...