Some people are claiming online that this is a cyber attack. I contract for the UK Gov and I'm hearing reports that traffic is going through the roof right now.
Anyone know if there is any legitimacy to this?
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#492Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does not seem like: https://github.com/varnishcache/varnish-cache/blob/606977bbf...
According to the Wikipedia page, it is intentional: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation Or did one of you already edit the Wikipedia page to reflect this discussion on hn?
It appears the mention of "Mediation" was made very recently, likely in response to what's currently going on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guru_Meditation&d...
And it seems to be incorrect, since this "spelling variation" is only used by Fastly and not part of Varnish?...
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#493Earlier quoted context omitted.
> [0] https://www.gov.uk/ Just checked, thank god the NHS vaccine site is still available - vaccines just got rolled out for under 30s today.
Edit: I didn’t mean anything negative here! Just slightly shocked that as the UK is opening up under 30 vaccinations, the US is struggling to find any more willing takers. It’s really probably a sign that there’s fewer anti-vaxxers in the UK more than anything. And that universal healthcare is more efficient at distribution than an inherently for profit system. I don’t know, but I just didn’t realize it was so differ…
You know which one’s worst? Japan... still reservation based and for 65 and up only!
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#494Yeah 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.
Meh. Losing sleep sounds like an over-reaction. No system is foolproof. Of course Fastly should do what they can to prevent downtime, but it's still expected that they will go down. I would blame anyone who claimed otherwise or couldn't deal with it while not having a fallback.
I hear that you're suggesting that those involved shouldnt feel bad because its a systemic / just a job / etc. But the reality is that incidents like this can be very traumatic for those involved and thats not something they can control. If it was that simple to manage, depression and anxiety would not be a thing.
Think its best to show a large amount of support and empathy for the individuals having a really bad day today, and how awful they may feel. Some will probably end up reading this thread (I know I would).
And of course, still hold Fastly the business accountable for their response (but objectively, once we understand what the root cause was, and the long term solution).
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#495I did not realise fastly adoption was so wide-spread. Can anyone more enlightened tell my why or have some resource on which use-cases fastly is superior to other CDNs such as CloudFlare?
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#497Earlier quoted context omitted.
You would think sites like Github and key government sites would at least have a fall back at the ready. It reasonable to use a CDN like Fastly, but having a single point of failure seems silly if you're the BBC or Gov UK. Although, it does seem BBC managed to get back up and running pretty quick so perhaps they were prepared for this.
Gov.UK is back up too. They have a mandate from government to be able to provide emergency communications so I expect they did have a backup and have managed to switch over, but just took 30 mins to do so. Gov.UK is supposed to be a bit like BBC 1 or Radio 1 – in a national emergency they can be taken over to disseminate critical information, like if there was a nuclear attack launched on the UK.
no, it's just that the incident has just been fixed by fastly https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj
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#498Good job Fastly for getting the issue identified and resolved so quickly. < 1 hour to identify, <13 minutes to fix (assuming status is accurate).
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#499Earlier quoted context omitted.
That wiki references the Varnish version. I think it's an intentional alteration of the original, given the context.
That edit was added after today's fastly outage began.
Even so, mediation makes sense in this context given fastly's business model.
It could be a typo or an attempt to be clever.
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#500it seems to be up now