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Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by jslakro »

meibo wrote: post #308
jslakro wrote: post #284

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why no other sites bypass the CDN and go directly?

If you aren't prepared to do CDN changes on a whim when something like this happens, it's often better to wait for the problem to be resolved instead of making things worse for yourself due to misconfigurations, revealing your origin IPs, etc. Can always improve the process for the next outage.

For sure, similar to other industries all changes come after big troubles like this. But would be interesting to heard about how them (paypal) deal with that

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Post by smhost »

darkwater wrote: post #273
smhost wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

if by "everything" you mean one thing, and by "centralize" you mean not centralized, then sure.

How is having a large chunk of the internet using the same CDN provider not "centralizing"? It's not a hard monopoly obviously but still it meets the definition of centralization.

how is private companies choosing to use a common supplier in a competitive market centralization? monopolies are not centralization either. you need to read a better book.

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Post by richardwhiuk »

jfny wrote: post #307
mpitt wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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They will use S3, but they need a CDN in front. Surprised they don't use CloudFront - maybe that's what they've failed over to.

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Post by busymom0 »

bb010g wrote: post #304
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #272

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And this is (one reason) why using images instead of actual emojis is such a stupid idea. Why, Twitter, WHY?

Branding! (Fun fact: Hacker News strips emoji.)

How does it strip it? Test:

Edit: You are right. It got rid of the emoji after Test.

Re: Fastly Outage

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Post by yxhuvud »

atymic wrote: post #230

This has got to be even bigger than when cloudflare went offline, in terms of big companies affected. Clearly they have way more F500 customers than CF. Good luck to the on call engineers!

The funny part is that it isn't uncommon for sites to depend on both cloudflare and fastly in one way or another, due to buying services from saas companies that also depend on them.

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Post by taurath »

ceejayoz wrote: post #286
evouga wrote: post #279

Since Fastly’s own website is currently down: What is fastly? Why are a huge number of web sites dependent on them? They are some kind of web host for companies that don’t want to run their own servers/data centers?

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.

Amazon doesn’t enforce dogfooding, their retail site is its own stack and has been only recently been migrating to EC2s

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Post by cellover »

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

Is the fact of looking at those links is like looking at a road accident with insistence instead of just passing by?

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Post by ImpactStrafe »

gansai wrote: post #231

wouldn't websites have alternate CDN's managing their traffic, why should they have a single point of failure ? I was assuming there are couple of services like Fastly and companies might have architected keeping in mind the alternatives too, I guess.

Because interacting and switching between cdns can be very complicated and/or costly

It should be planned for, especially by major tech organizations like reddit, or Amazon, etc.

But I won't fault news organizations, who already don't have boatloads of money for not having fail over cdns

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Post by angled »

None of the ES/NQ/RTY/YM futures contracts took kindly to the outage! This could have had a much wider financial impact. Most seem to have recovered now.
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