No mention of outage on https://status.cloud.google.com/, and I wonder why, because apparently this is a GCP problem.
Fastly Outage
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#472numpy docs, too. i think it's cloudflare related as well. at least, I keep seeing some cloudflare errors interpolated with the 503 varnish error.
Well they thought that using a CDN over a CDN would be a good idea
We've got Cloudflare sitting in front of our Firebase/GCP instance (which I've just found out is Fastly-cached :/). Getting 503s at the origin but we're up on our URL with an always online notice thanks to CF. Double dip isn't all that bad.
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#473Earlier quoted context omitted.
While we're here.. I am a bit surprised to see how many sites use Fastly. As a dev I've always been happy with Cloudflare.
Now imagine how many sites would go down if it was CF
Is this a call for competition? I regard Cloudflare as state-of-the-art in terms of security and ease-of-use. I certainly hope their knowledge replicates across other organizations. As of now they're still building highly impactful tools that are easy to use and that noone else quite provides. I don't really expect another organization to match them given the strength of their current leadership. I think they've built in a head start for awhile.
Re: Fastly Outage
#474It should be resolve soon. From fastly status page: The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. Posted 1 minute ago. Jun 08, 2021 - 10:44 UTC
Wonder if all the caches will have been wiped, causing knock on issues
You might be right. Here is another update from fastly:
The issue has been identified and a fix has been applied. Customers may experience increased origin load as global services return.
Let's see
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#475Looks like Fastly did not work as advertised, very misleading.
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#476Amazon.com was completely broken here (Europe) and they're back, I was observing from where the assets were loaded from and they switched from EU to NA as a failover. Homework well done.
I was surprised to learn Amazon don't use their own CDN
They used to use AWS CloudFront and switched to Fastly, someone shared this in another comment:
[https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2020/05/fastly-amazon-hom...: CDN Fastly Wins Content Delivery Business For Amazon.com and IMDB Websites)
Quoting:
> "But with small object delivery, like images loading fast on Amazon’s home page, it’s the opposite. Customers will pay for a better level of performance and in this case, Fastly clearly outperformed Amazon’s own CDN CloudFront. This isn’t too surprising since CloudFront’s strength isn’t web performance, or even live streaming, but rather on-demand delivery of video and downloads."
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#477Earlier 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.
That's a sure fire way to get a CYA culture, and it's a reason why the most successful tech firms don't do it.
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#479Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
it's centralization because they all use the same provider. Why do you care about incentives here? The result is the same, just like capitalism and free market tend to monopolies in the long run.
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#480Earlier 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
...and naturally someone has already updated the page today to include (and highlight) its use and mispelling on Varnish.