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I am genuinely surprised that Slack wasn't ready for people to come back from holiday, to view increased queues of unread messages, to have to manually login vs. having auth tokens or cookies, etc. Either that, or they had a cosmically coincidental outage on a really bad Monday to have it. It's bad enough team comms go over Slack so much now, at least we have email fallback. What scares me is for the teams that use S…
How would people react? What would engineers do to recover? I always found that idea fascinating.
Imagine Google saying tomorrow that they lost all the accounts and emails. What kind of impact the world will have?
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Which AZ?
Availability zones are unique for each account. So my zone A could be your zone C, for example.
[edit] Nevermind, I just needed the right combination of terms to find it: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ram/latest/userguide/working-wit...
And there we have it: Relying on big companies sucks. It's great as long as it works. Once a system breaks thousands, or even millions, of businesses suffer. (Of course they are also beneficial and a private server can also crash at any time + I don't wanna blame Slack, but we always have to keep this in mind).
Notion is sluggish as well. That combined with the reports of HN potentially being slow, is there some larger network issue at play affecting a region of servers, potentially?
I'll take this moment to remind everyone of their human tendency to read meaning into random events. There's no evidence to suggest New Year traffic has caused this, and outages like this can happen in spite of professional and competent preparation.
Hugops for their team, I hope they get it back soon.
Notion is sluggish as well. That combined with the reports of HN potentially being slow, is there some larger network issue at play affecting a region of servers, potentially?
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Interestingly their uptime for the quarter is still 100% despite a full-red dashboard. I wonder if that's something that is calculated only after an outage is resolved
Well until the issue is resolved you can't know how long you've been down for, so you can't actually update the uptime.
Probably not a priority though.