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My favourite was the Azure CTO complaining that Git was unintuitive, clunky and difficult to use
Sounds like he’s describing Windows phone.
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IIRC, the grocery chain I worked for used to have an offline mode to move customers out the door. But it meant that when the system came back online, if the customers card was denied, the customer got free groceries.
IIRC, the grocery chain I worked for used to have an offline mode to move customers out the door. Chick-fil-a has this. One of the tech people there was on HN a few years ago describing their system. Credit card approval slows down the line, so the cards are automatically "approved" at the terminal, and the transaction is added to a queue. The loss from fraudulent transactions turns out to be less than the loss from…
Buy cloud because you're always safe! Until you aren't.
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It's Family Dollar, margin has to be almost nothing and sales per day is probably I go there daily because it's a nice 30min round trip walk and I wfh. I go up there to get a diet coke or something else just to get out of the house. It amazes me when i see a handwritten sign on the door "closed, system is down". I've gotten to know the cashiers so I asked and it's because the internet connection goes down all the tim…
I think the point people are trying and failing to make is that asking for half of means sales is half of revenue not half of net and that you’re out of your goddamned mind if you think a store with razor thin margins would sell at a massive loss rather than just close due to connectivity problems. Your responses imply that you think people are questioning whether you would lose money on the deal while we are instead…
It seems like an easy problem to fix and a retail store being closed for a whole weekday because of inet access sounds crazy to me.
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I run non trivial services on EC2, using that service as a VPS. My deploy script works just as well on provisioned Digital Ocean services and on docker containers using docker-compose. I do need a human to provision a few servers and configure e.g. load balancing and when to spin up additional servers under load. But that is far less of a PITA than having my systems tied to a specific provider or down whenever a clou…
It's absolutely doable if you design for it. The moment you choose to use S3 instead of hosting your own object store, though, you either use AWS because S3 and IAM already have you or spend more time on the care and feeding of your storage system as opposed to actually doing the thing you customers are paying you to do. It's not impossible, just complicated and difficult for any moderately complex architecture.
I bet it’s DNS.