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33 minutes from impact to status page for a complete outage is a joke.
In Microsoft's defense, Azure has always been a complete joke. It's extremely developer unfriendly, buggy and overpriced.
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> no way whatsoever to access most/all of your services I work on a product hosted on Azure. That's not the case. Except for front door, everything else is running fine. (Front door is a reverse proxy for static web sites.) The product itself (an iot stormwater management system) is running, but our customers just can't access the website. If they need to do something, they can go out to the sites or call us and we c…
The portal was down for most of the day and accessing any resources from the portal once the portal was up was not possible.
Now I will admit I am more of a point-and-click person; but if I had to I could have figured out how to use the command line.
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I noticed it when my Netatmo rigamajig stopped notifying me of bad indoor air quality. Lovely. Why does it need to go through the cloud if the data is right there in the home network…
Same here for netatmo - ironically I replied to an incident report with netatmo saying all was OK when the whole system was falling over. However netatmo does need to have a server to store data as you need to consolidate acreoss devices plus you can query gfor a year's data and that won't and can't be held locally.
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The portal was down for most of the day and accessing any resources from the portal once the portal was up was not possible.
You were able to manage everything through the command line the entire time. Now I will admit I am more of a point-and-click person; but if I had to I could have figured out how to use the command line.
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I've only used Azure, to me it seems fine ish. Some things are rather overcomplicated and it's far from perfect but I assumed the other providers were similarly complicated and imperfect. Can't say I've experienced many bugs in there either. It definitely is overpriced but I assume they all are?
They are all broken, weird, and expensive in their own ways. Its nothing unique to Azure.
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Even on non-AWS projects, I still use S3. I haven't really explored the other options, but if you have opinions or advice I'd love to hear them. One thing very important, is that I can authorise specific web clients (users) to access specific resources from S3. Such as a document that he can download, but others with the link should not be able to download. Thank you!
The way I solved auth in my case was just proxying everything through my backend and having that do the auth. I have my own URL scheme and the users never see the URL for the file in S3. Another way you can do it is generating pre-signed URLs in your backend on each request to download something... but the URL that is generated when you do that is only valid for some small time period, so not a stable URL at all. In…
Thank you.
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Organizations who had their own datacenters were chided for being resistant to modernizing, and now they modernized to use someone else's shared computers and they stopped working. I really do feel the only viable future for clouds is hybrid or agnostic clouds.
Hybrid was always the way. Use different tools to solve different problems.
Had some Frontdoor operations timing out, but now I'm straight up denied with "Message: All Changes to Azure Frondoor Configuration are blocked currently."
What a mess.
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Well "mail in voting" in Washington state pretty much means you drop off your ballot in a drop box in your neighborhood. Which is pretty much the same thing as putting it in a ballot box.
Here in NZ when I've been to vote, there are usually a couple of party affiliates at the voting location, doing what one of the parent posts described: > You can stay there and wait for the count at the end of the day if you want to. And if you watch the election night news, you'll see footage of multiple people counting the votes from the ballot boxes, again with various people observing to check that nothing dodgy…
Yeah that happened once in OR then got re-plastered all over the news dozens of times. I'm sure you can find way more incidents of intimidation, fighting, long lines and other issues for in-person voting. But individual incidents does not mean that there is anything wrong with a system that has worked for decades in multiple states.