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.
Call me old fashioned but the latest trend of showing "empathy" for a serious incident, then proceeding to dance around the aftermath of it, whilst people give themselves a pat on back in a retro/post-mortem, isn't the way to do it. People need to be blamed, and responsibility for actions taken (without covering asses)
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#442basically the internet is down reddit, stackoverflow, github, paypal, pypi, twitter, twitch, NYT, CNN, BBC, the Guardian... edit: wow, even Amazon.com relies on Fastly for some of its edge caches!
How will they troubleshoot the error messages now?
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#443Interestingly, https://www.fastly.com/ works for me, whereas https://fastly.com/ doesn't.
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#444Pretty bad www.gov.uk is down as more services move to digital.
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#445Earlier quoted context omitted.
The point isn't to dance around the incident, but to not blame people. You can blame systems, design, engineering culture, processes, but don't blame people. Even if someone accidentally pressed the 'destroy prod' button, that's not the fault of that person, it's the fault of that button existing and being accessible in the first place. I have no empathy for Fastly-the-company. I hate the fact that the Internet is ce…
I disagree. People implemented those systems, so if you are correct that it is the systems fault, then it is also a persons fault. People must be held accountable to have good incentives to reduce such outtages in the future. I do agree though that we should always be compassionate and realistic with other humans.
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#448Those of you that work in DevOps, SRE or are CTOs. What kind of things do you put in place to manage these kind of centralised issues that are beyond your control?
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#450Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mediation is a real word though?
That is true, but the typo is because they presumably meant to reference this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation
I think it's an intentional alteration of the original, given the context.