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Re: Fastly CDN is down (affecting Reddit, GitHub, SO, ...)

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Post by notanote »

barosl wrote: post #4

I didn't know so many sites were depending on Fastly. Stack Overflow, GitHub, reddit, ..., even pip is unavailable. My development workflow is completely janked up. It is a bit scary that we are putting so many eggs in one basket.

I use uBlock Origin with default third-party blocking, so I see such trends happening as I browse. The strong consolidation on fastly feels like a recent development (last year, at a guess). Before that it was edgekey for a while.

Maybe we need a crawler that keeps track of the hidden centralisation of the web. Or is someone doing that already?

Cloudflare, AWS, fastly, etc. It’s not quite all eggs in one basket, but the amount of baskets is small, and the amount of eggs in them is growing. This is a timely reminder of that.

Re: Fastly CDN is down (affecting Reddit, GitHub, SO, ...)

#42

Post by jamaicahest »

barosl wrote: post #4

I didn't know so many sites were depending on Fastly. Stack Overflow, GitHub, reddit, ..., even pip is unavailable. My development workflow is completely janked up. It is a bit scary that we are putting so many eggs in one basket.

A client of mine once told me "We are self-hosting our CI/CD servers because when problems occur, I can tell my employees to stay at work until it is fixed. I cannot tell GitHub to stay at work until they fix their issue."

Re: Fastly CDN is down (affecting Reddit, GitHub, SO, ...)

#46

Post by lxgr »

jamaicahest wrote: post #42
barosl wrote: post #4

I didn't know so many sites were depending on Fastly. Stack Overflow, GitHub, reddit, ..., even pip is unavailable. My development workflow is completely janked up. It is a bit scary that we are putting so many eggs in one basket.

A client of mine once told me "We are self-hosting our CI/CD servers because when problems occur, I can tell my employees to stay at work until it is fixed. I cannot tell GitHub to stay at work until they fix their issue."

That seems like a weird way of measuring success (person-hours rather than some goal/outcome-oriented metrics like uptime).

Re: Fastly CDN is down (affecting Reddit, GitHub, SO, ...)

#47

Post by regularfry »

OnlyMortal wrote: post #8

I don’t know the technical issues but it doesn’t seem prudent for a business to have a single point of failure.

Depends on the cost of doubling up and the cost of the outage. If you're looking at half an hour once a decade versus triple the development complexity, you eat the outage.

Re: Fastly CDN is down (affecting Reddit, GitHub, SO, ...)

#48

Post by regularfry »

lxgr wrote: post #46
jamaicahest wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A client of mine once told me "We are self-hosting our CI/CD servers because when problems occur, I can tell my employees to stay at work until it is fixed. I cannot tell GitHub to stay at work until they fix their issue."

That seems like a weird way of measuring success (person-hours rather than some goal/outcome-oriented metrics like uptime).

Not only that, it's just odd logic. I'm going to prevent my employees from domain-specific value-add by forcing them to overwork on generic tooling? What?

Re: Fastly CDN is down (affecting Reddit, GitHub, SO, ...)

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Post by sidlls »

lxgr wrote: post #46
jamaicahest wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A client of mine once told me "We are self-hosting our CI/CD servers because when problems occur, I can tell my employees to stay at work until it is fixed. I cannot tell GitHub to stay at work until they fix their issue."

That seems like a weird way of measuring success (person-hours rather than some goal/outcome-oriented metrics like uptime).

I don't think that's what was intended. It reads to me there's more perception of control (employees directed to work) to achieve the goal (restoring service) during an outage. Outages happen regardless of uptime guarantees--it's just a matter of how often and how long they last.
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