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Re: Issue affecting the Gateway API on the Braintree platform

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post #33

Extended downtime like this usually means prod database deleted. Sucks to be that SRE team. Can’t wait for the Kevin Fang re-enactment!

Or that one microservice holding up the other 10,000 microservices keeled over :)

But microservices are standalone services.

Anyone who correctly implements ms wouldn't make it depend on other ms or get it shipped to prod anyway.

Edit: /s

Re: Issue affecting the Gateway API on the Braintree platform

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or that one microservice holding up the other 10,000 microservices keeled over :)

But microservices are standalone services. Anyone who correctly implements ms wouldn't make it depend on other ms or get it shipped to prod anyway. Edit: /s

Right... I'm sure that's what happens.

Re: Issue affecting the Gateway API on the Braintree platform

#43

Meanwhile, anyone in Boston who only read the headline is completely unsurprised to hear that the red line isn't running and is wondering how this merits making the front page of HN.

Haven't lived in Boston since early 2018 and I've only heard worse and worse things. Good grief.

Re: Issue affecting the Gateway API on the Braintree platform

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post #5

"Some merchants may be seeing a higher-than-usual decline due to Gateway rejections Fraud." Is this really "down"?

The trend is is to downplay the issue in status messages to obscure the real problem. That message could mean anything from an extra 1% of rejections to 99% of transactions are failing. The vagueness is the point, because they want to avoid admitting serious problems. We had this problem with some devops hires who came from a big company. They’d delay updating the status page as long as possible, then update with the…

>We had this problem with some devops hires who came from a big company.

Amazon.

All you have to do is look at their status page of green lights when us-east goes down completely to lose complete faith in their status page reflecting anything but wishful thinking.

Re: Issue affecting the Gateway API on the Braintree platform

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or that one microservice holding up the other 10,000 microservices keeled over :)

But microservices are standalone services. Anyone who correctly implements ms wouldn't make it depend on other ms or get it shipped to prod anyway. Edit: /s

I would actually love to know if you have done this in prod and what it looked like.

Re: Issue affecting the Gateway API on the Braintree platform

#47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or that one microservice holding up the other 10,000 microservices keeled over :)

But microservices are standalone services. Anyone who correctly implements ms wouldn't make it depend on other ms or get it shipped to prod anyway. Edit: /s

I'm trying to figure out the odds that you intended this as sarcasm.

In the real world, it doesn't work like that.

Re: Issue affecting the Gateway API on the Braintree platform

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post #40

Meanwhile, anyone in Boston who only read the headline is completely unsurprised to hear that the red line isn't running and is wondering how this merits making the front page of HN.

Some context[1] for the non-Bostonians Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority RED LINE Ashmont/Braintree 4 current alerts So it seems this line is pretty unreliable. [1] https://www.mbta.com/schedules/Red/line

15 miles south of Boston: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braintree,_Massachusetts

Re: Issue affecting the Gateway API on the Braintree platform

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post #35
post #3

Defi has never been down.

people in the comments are getting nasty. Sure the ecosystem is plagued with scammers, but financial system in general is filled with scammers. We just have insurance products or the faith of the US government to bail you out lol I still believe in digital currency as the future.

The -highly entertaining- comments are rightfully bashing the de facto state of defi in the context of GPs comment.

Remind me when a digital currency actually exists, because I haven't seen one yet. The problem isn't just that the ecosystem is filled with scammers, its that the tech doesn't solve any existing problem but creates new ones instead. Web3 is a joke.

Re: Issue affecting the Gateway API on the Braintree platform

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or that one microservice holding up the other 10,000 microservices keeled over :)

But microservices are standalone services. Anyone who correctly implements ms wouldn't make it depend on other ms or get it shipped to prod anyway. Edit: /s

Anyone who correctly implements a payment service wouldn't make it go down for 7 hours.
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