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Re: Heroku is down again

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Post by MrMatters »

prezjordan wrote: post #23
robbiet480 wrote: post #14

MASSIVE Storms in VA area where us-east-1 is. 326,000 customers without power already, worst lightning I have seen in my 20 years of life. Sky is intense blue/green/purple. This is most likely what the issue is

No matter how powerful we become as a species with our technology, we are still at the mercy of the clouds. Pretty cool if you think about it.

Well, until we figure out plausible ways to control weather reliably on a large enough scale, at least. Without killing the atmosphere or our species or anything like that.

Re: Heroku is down again

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Post by oldstrangers »

prezjordan wrote: post #23
robbiet480 wrote: post #14

MASSIVE Storms in VA area where us-east-1 is. 326,000 customers without power already, worst lightning I have seen in my 20 years of life. Sky is intense blue/green/purple. This is most likely what the issue is

No matter how powerful we become as a species with our technology, we are still at the mercy of the clouds. Pretty cool if you think about it.

Or if we just built our power grid underground like rational people.

Re: Heroku is down again

#65

Post by meskyanichi »

prezjordan wrote: post #23
robbiet480 wrote: post #14

MASSIVE Storms in VA area where us-east-1 is. 326,000 customers without power already, worst lightning I have seen in my 20 years of life. Sky is intense blue/green/purple. This is most likely what the issue is

No matter how powerful we become as a species with our technology, we are still at the mercy of the clouds. Pretty cool if you think about it.

Or as the religious people call it, "The Act of God". No seriously, people actually write that shit in their terms. Hilarious.

Re: Heroku is down again

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Post by mechanical_fish »

rgarcia wrote: post #51

How many times does this have to happen before heroku spreads across multiple regions?

It's a hard thing to engineer, especially after the fact, and especially when you are trying to hide it behind an abstraction layer. (Which is to say: You can't expect your customers to engineer their apps with multiregion in mind, or to take it kindly when you raise rates to support additional redundant hardware and bandwidth.)

e.g. because region-to-region data transfer is not free, and trans-region latency is ugly, you can't just relaunch half your instance farm in another region and expect happiness. There are also routing issues: Internal IPs don't work across regions, elastic IPs don't transfer across regions...

Re: Heroku is down again

#68

Post by wavephorm »

prezjordan wrote: post #23
robbiet480 wrote: post #14

MASSIVE Storms in VA area where us-east-1 is. 326,000 customers without power already, worst lightning I have seen in my 20 years of life. Sky is intense blue/green/purple. This is most likely what the issue is

No matter how powerful we become as a species with our technology, we are still at the mercy of the clouds. Pretty cool if you think about it.

Hopefully one day it will be feasible to host our computing architecture in space and avoid all these terrestrial obstructions.

Re: Heroku is down again

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Post by jberryman »

robbiet480 wrote: post #14

MASSIVE Storms in VA area where us-east-1 is. 326,000 customers without power already, worst lightning I have seen in my 20 years of life. Sky is intense blue/green/purple. This is most likely what the issue is

Was watching a movie in a big 20-screen theater in Richmond, and they told everybody to just leave (incidentally, not through the emergency exits, instead they funneled 100s of people into the lobby all at once :/)
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